Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.
- based on novel or book
- jewish life
- college
- korean war (1950-53)
- ohio
- 1950s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Joanne Baron — Mrs. Greenberg
- Ben Rosenfield — Bertram Flusser
- Philip Ettinger — Ron Foxman
- Pico Alexander — Sonny Cottler
- Noah Robbins — Marty Ziegler
- Danny Burstein — Max Messner
- Susan Varon — Mrs. Dadidovich
- Bryan Burton — Ben
- Steven Kaplan — Anker
- Richard Topol — Mo Greenberg
- Isabel Keating — Miss Clement
- Directed
- James Schamus
- Written
- James Schamus
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 289 ratings
- Studio
- Likely Story, Symbolic Exchange
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.
