Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 165 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside the LBJ White House leading up to and during the Vietnam War.
- vietnam war
- vietcong
- usa president
- cold war
- failure
- advisor
- 1960s
- difficult choice
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Michael Gambon
Lyndon Johnson
Donald Sutherland
Clark Clifford
Alec Baldwin
Robert McNamara
Bruce McGill
George Ball
- James Frain — Richard Goodwin
- Felicity Huffman — Lady Bird Johnson
- Philip Baker Hall — Everett Dirksen
- Frederic Forrest — Earle G. Wheeler
- Diana Scarwid — Marny Clifford
- Sarah Paulson — Luci Baines Johnson
- Chris Eigeman — Bill Moyers
- Tom Skerritt — William Westmoreland
- John Aylward — Dean Rusk
- Peter Jacobson — Adam Yarmolinsky
- Gerry Becker — Walt Rostow
- Directed
- John Frankenheimer
- Written
- Daniel Giat
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 61 ratings
- Studio
- Avenue Pictures, Edgar J. Scherick Associates, HBO, HBO Films
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