Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
- prison
- mask
- individual
- operation
- robbery
- restart
- ex-detainee
- new orleans
- louisiana
- new identity
- ugliness
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Mickey Rourke
Johnny Handsome
Ellen Barkin
Sunny Boyd
Morgan Freeman
Lt. A.Z. Drones
Forest Whitaker
Dr. Steven Fisher
- Elizabeth McGovern — Donna McCarty
- Lance Henriksen — Rafe Garrett
- Scott Wilson — Mikey Chalmette
- David Schramm — Vic Dumask
- Peter Jason — Mr. Bonet
- Yvonne Bryceland — Sister Luke
- Jeffrey Meek — Earl
- J.W. Smith — Larry
- Allan Graf — Bob Lemoyne
- Edward Walsh — Judge
- Eugenia Ives — Nurse
- Directed
- Walter Hill
- Written
- Ken Friedman
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 300 ratings
- Studio
- The Guber-Peters Company, Roven Productions, Carolco 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.
