Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 128 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
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
- suicide
- sheriff
- police
- funeral
- ku klux klan
- mississippi river
- shotgun
- fbi
- deputy sheriff
- motel
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gene Hackman
Agent Rupert Anderson
Willem Dafoe
Agent Alan Ward
Frances McDormand
Mrs. Pell
Brad Dourif
Deputy Clinton Pell
- R. Lee Ermey — Mayor Tilman
- Gailard Sartain — Sheriff Stuckey
- Stephen Tobolowsky — Townley
- Michael Rooker — Frank Bailey
- Pruitt Taylor Vince — Lester Cowens
- Badja Djola — Agent Monk
- Kevin Dunn — Agent Bird
- Frankie Faison — Eulogist
- Thomas B. Mason — Judge (as Tom Mason)
- Geoffrey Nauffts — Goatee
- Rick Zieff — Passenger
- Directed
- Alan Parker
- Written
- Chris Gerolmo
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 2,012 ratings
- Studio
- Orion Pictures, Frederick Zollo Productions
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.
