Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.
- dying and death
- vietnam war
- rock 'n' roll
- vietnam
- vietcong
- right and justice
- explosive
- war crimes
- radio station
- radio presenter
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Bruno Kirby — Lt. Steven Hauk
- Robert Wuhl — Marty Lee Dreiwitz
- J.T. Walsh — Sgt. Major Dickerson
- Noble Willingham — Gen. Taylor
- Richard Edson — Pvt. Abersold
- Juney Smith — Phil McPherson
- Richard Portnow — Dan 'The Man' Levitan
- Floyd Vivino — Eddie Kirk
- Cu Ba Nguyen — Jimmy Wah
- Dan Stanton — Censor #1
- Don Stanton — Censor #2
- Directed
- Barry Levinson
- Written
- Mitch Markowitz
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 3,087 ratings
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
