Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…
- philadelphia
- pennsylvania
- hitman
- male friendship
- on the run
- bookie
- one night
- existentialism
- woman director
- intense
- depressing
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Carol Grace — Nellie
- William Hickey — Sid Fine
- Sanford Meisner — Dave Resnick
- Joyce Van Patten — Jan
- M. Emmet Walsh — Bus Driver
- Sy Travers — Hotel Clerk
- Peter R. Scoppa — Counter Man
- Virginia Smith — Jan's Mother
- Jean Shevlin — Lady on Bus
- Danny Klein — Harry
- Martin Wolfson — Candy Store Man
- Directed
- Elaine May
- Written
- Elaine May
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 209 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount 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.
