Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 130 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 hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
- war veteran
- patriotism
- recruit
- battle assignment
- marine
- platoon
- combat
- military
- us military
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Clint Eastwood
Gunnery Sgt. Tom 'Gunny' Highway
Marsha Mason
Aggie
Everett McGill
Major Malcolm A. Powers
Moses Gunn
Staff Sergeant Webster
- Mario Van Peebles — Corporal 'Stitch' Jones
- Eileen Heckart — Little Mary Jackson
- Bo Svenson — Roy Jennings
- Boyd Gaines — Lieutenant M.R. Ring
- Arlen Dean Snyder — Sergeant Major Choozoo
- Vincent Irizarry — Fragetti
- Ramón Franco — Private Aponte
- Tom Villard — Profile
- Begonya Plaza — Private Aponte's Wife
- Peter Jason — Major G.F. Devin
- Mike Gomez — Private Quinones
- Directed
- Clint Eastwood
- Written
- Dennis Hackin, Joseph Stinson, James Carabatsos
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 1,156 ratings
- Studio
- Jay Weston Productions, Malpaso Productions
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.
