Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, Germany
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
- island
- japan
- stop motion
- dog
- garbage dump
- pets
- witty
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Bryan Cranston
Chief (voice)
Koyu Rankin
Atari Kobayashi (voice)
Bob Balaban
King (voice)
Edward Norton
Rex (voice)
- Bill Murray — Boss (voice)
- Jeff Goldblum — Duke (voice)
- Kunichi Nomura — Mayor Kobayashi (voice)
- Fisher Stevens — Scrap (voice)
- Akira Takayama — Major Domo (voice)
- Greta Gerwig — Tracy Walker (voice)
- Ken Watanabe — Head Surgeon (voice)
- Frances McDormand — Interpreter Nelson (voice)
- Nijiro Murakami — Editor Hiroshi (voice)
- Harvey Keitel — Gondo (voice)
- Liev Schreiber — Spots (voice)
- Directed
- Wes Anderson
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 5,546 ratings
- Studio
- Studio Babelsberg, American Empirical Pictures, Indian Paintbrush, Scott Rudin 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.
