Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Belgium
The story
In Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after a decade's exile in America. Witnessing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and he seeks to reopen the dance hall that led to his deportation.
- poverty
- ireland
- 1930s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Brían F. O'Byrne — Commander O'Keefe
- Francis Magee — Mossie
- Karl Geary — Seán
- Shane Cullen — Guard
- Sean Fox
- Sorcha Fox — Molly
- Aisling Franciosi — Marie
- Denise Gough — Tess
- Aileen Henry — Alice
- Seamus Hughes — Ruairí
- Martin Lucey — Dessie
- Directed
- Ken Loach
- Written
- Paul Laverty, Donal O'Kelly
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 209 ratings
- Studio
- Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, Element Pictures, Film4 Productions, France 2 Cinéma
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.
