Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 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 young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
- drug dealer
- street gang
- gangster
- ghetto
- delinquency
- los angeles
- california
- shocking
- angry
- aggressive
- hopeless
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tyrin Turner
Caine 'Kaydee' Lawson
Larenz Tate
Kevin 'O-Dog'
Glenn Plummer
Pernell
Jada Pinkett Smith
Ronnie
- Samuel L. Jackson — Tat Lawson
- June Kyoto Lu — Grocery Store Woman
- Toshi Toda — Grocery Store Man
- Reginald Ballard — Clyde
- Khandi Alexander — Karen Lawson
- Jullian Roy Doster — Anthony
- Brandon Hammond — Five Year Old Caine
- Eugene Lee — Man #1
- James Pickens Jr. — Man #2
- Nancy Cheryll Davis — Teacher
- Marilyn Coleman — Grandmama
- Directed
- Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
- Written
- Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes, Tyger Williams
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 920 ratings
- Studio
- New Line Cinema
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.
