Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Brazil
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In Portuguese — subtitles on.
The story
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
- prostitution
- lgbt
- disturbed
- gay theme
- critical
- intense
- depressing
- complicated
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Zenildo Oliveira Santos — Fumaça
- Claudio Bernardo — Garatao
- Israel Feres David — Roberto Pie de Plata
- Jose Nilson Martin Dos Santos — Diego
- Marília Pêra — Sueli
- Jardel Filho — Sapatos Brancos
- Rubens de Falco — Judge
- Elke Maravilha — Débora
- Tony Tornado — Cristal
- Beatriz Segall — Widow
- João José Pompeo — Almir
- Directed
- Héctor Babenco
- Written
- Héctor Babenco, Jorge Durán
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 255 ratings
- Studio
- HB Filmes, Embrafilme
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.
