Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-era South, out of the hands of gangsters who want to take it over.
- piano lessons
- mortician
- tied to chair
- song and dance
- fisticuffs
- talking to the dead
- close-up
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Faizon Love — Ace
- Malinda Williams — Zora
- Cicely Tyson — Mother Hopkins
- Macy Gray — Taffy
- Ben Vereen — Percy Senior
- Bruce Bruce — Nathan
- Paula Jai Parker — Rose
- Bobb'e J. Thompson — Young Rooster
- Patti LaBelle — The Real Angel Davenport
- Ving Rhames — Spats
- Jackie Long — Monk
- Directed
- Bryan Barber
- Written
- Bryan Barber
Production
- Rating
- 5.6 / 10 · 69 ratings
- Studio
- HBO Films, Forensic Films, Atlas Entertainment, Universal Pictures
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.
