Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 189 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, France
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
- vietnam war
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- assassination
- usa president
- government
- politics
- homophobia
- texas
- new orleans
- louisiana
- investigation
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Kevin Costner
Jim Garrison
Tommy Lee Jones
Clay Shaw
Gary Oldman
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kevin Bacon
Willie O'Keefe
- Michael Rooker — Bill Broussard
- Jack Lemmon — Jack Martin
- Laurie Metcalf — Susie Cox
- Sissy Spacek — Liz Garrison
- Joe Pesci — David Ferrie
- John Candy — Dean Andrews
- Pruitt Taylor Vince — Lee Bowers
- Jay O. Sanders — Lou Ivon
- Walter Matthau — Senator Long
- Sally Kirkland — Rose Cheramie
- Donald Sutherland — X
- Directed
- Oliver Stone
- Written
- Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 2,484 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Le Studio Canal+, Regency Enterprises, Alcor Films, Ixtlan Productions, A. Kitman Ho 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.
