Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Australia, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
- prison
- island
- singapore
- world war ii
- prisoner of war
- indonesia
- pacific war
- 1940s
The bill
Glenn Close
Adrienne Pargiter
Frances McDormand
Dr. Verstak
Pauline Collins
Daisy 'Margaret' Drummond
Cate Blanchett
Susan Macarthy
- Julianna Margulies — Topsy Merritt
- Jennifer Ehle — Rosemary Leighton-Jones
- Wendy Hughes — Mrs. Dickson
- Johanna ter Steege — Sister Wilhelminia
- Elizabeth Spriggs — Mrs. Roberts
- Pamela Rabe — Mrs. Tippler
- Clyde Kusatsu — Sergeant Tomiashi, 'The Snake'
- Stan Egi — Captain Tanaka
- David Chung — the interpreter
- Sab Shimono — Colonel Hirota
- Penne Hackforth-Jones — Mrs. Pike
- Directed
- Bruce Beresford
- Written
- Bruce Beresford
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 94 ratings
- Studio
- Samson Productions, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Village Roadshow, Australian Film Commission, Pacific Film and Television Commission
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