Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
- florida
- small town
- rape
- based on novel or book
- professor
- innocence
- harvard university
- revenge
- serial killer
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Sean Connery
Paul Armstrong
Laurence Fishburne
Sheriff Tanny Brown
Blair Underwood
Bobby Earl Ferguson
Kate Capshaw
Laurie Armstrong
- Ruby Dee — Evangeline Ferguson
- Scarlett Johansson — Kate Armstrong
- Ed Harris — Blair Sullivan
- Christopher Murray — Detective T.J. Wilcox
- Daniel J. Travanti — Warden
- Ned Beatty — McNair
- Liz Torres — Delores Rodriguez
- Chris Sarandon — Lyle Morgan
- Deborah Smith Ford — Medical Examiner
- Ashley Holliday Tavares — Slumber Party Girl
- Hope Lange — Libby Prentiss
- Directed
- Arne Glimcher
- Written
- Peter Stone, Jeb Stuart
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 639 ratings
- Studio
- Lee Rich Productions, Fountainbridge Films, Warner Bros. 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.
