Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 138 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
- corruption
- based on novel or book
- call girl
- shotgun
- detective
- femme fatale
- domestic violence
- whodunit
- corpse
- district attorney
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Kevin Spacey
Jack Vincennes
Russell Crowe
Wendell 'Bud' White
Guy Pearce
Edmund 'Ed' Exley
James Cromwell
Dudley Smith
- Kim Basinger — Lynn Bracken
- Danny DeVito — Sid Hudgens
- David Strathairn — Pierce Patchett
- Ron Rifkin — D.A. Ellis Loew
- Graham Beckel — Dick Stensland
- Amber Smith — Susan Lefferts
- John Mahon — Police Chief
- Paul Guilfoyle — Mickey Cohen
- Matt McCoy — 'Badge of Honor' Star Brett Chase
- Paolo Seganti — Johnny Stompanato
- Simon Baker — Matt Reynolds
- Directed
- Curtis Hanson
- Written
- Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 5,708 ratings
- Studio
- Regency Enterprises, Wolper Organization
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.
