Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
- new york city
- hostage
- ultimatum
- heist
- police detective
- bank robbery
- hostage situation
- nypd
- manhattan
- new york city
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Denzel Washington
Keith Frazier
Clive Owen
Dalton Russell
Jodie Foster
Madeleine White
Christopher Plummer
Arthur Case
- Willem Dafoe — John Darius
- Chiwetel Ejiofor — Bill Mitchell
- Carlos Andrés Gómez — Steve
- Kim Director — Stevie
- James Ransone — Steve-O
- Bernie Rachelle — Chaim
- Peter Gerety — Captain Coughlin
- Victor Colicchio — Sergeant Collins
- Cassandra Freeman — Sylvia
- Peter Frechette — Peter Hammond
- Gerry Vichi — Herman Gluck
- Directed
- Spike Lee
- Written
- Russell Gewirtz
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 6,540 ratings
- Studio
- 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Imagine 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.
