Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 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
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.
- rap music
- hip-hop
- street gang
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Cindy Herron — Yolanda
- Samuel L. Jackson — Trip
- Queen Latifah — Ruffhouse M.C.
- Vincent Laresca — Radames
- Michael Badalucco — Detective Kelly
- Donald Faison — Student
- Maggie Rush — Myra
- Bruklin Harris — Keesha
- Bokeem Woodbine — Patron
- Grace Garland — Q's Mother
- John P. 'Jack' McLaughlin — Cop #1
- Directed
- Ernest R. Dickerson
- Written
- Ernest R. Dickerson, Gerard Brown
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 465 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Island World, Original Film
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.
