Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
West Point graduate lieutenant Jeff Knight meets cynicism when taking command of sergeant Michael McNamara's tour veterans platoon in a Vietnamese trench camp. Unlike his predecessor, who hid till the end of his tour, Jeff takes charge, experiences the manual doesn't allow coping with all realities and gets wounded. He returns, now fully respect by men and superiors. Besides the Vietcong, the platoon wrestles with the inscrutable villagers, which the G.I.'s officially protect, but also fear as some collaborate with them, other covertly with the Cong, either way subject to bloody reprisals.
- vietnam war
- vietnam
- vietcong
- us army
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Michael Dudikoff
Lt. Jeff Knight
Robert F. Lyons
Sgt. Michael McNamara
Michael DeLorenzo
Raymond Bacera
Jesse Dabson
Joshua Parker
- Rick Fitts — Sgt. Robert Hayes
- Tony Pierce — Jan Shultz
- Daniel Demorest — Duffy
- Brian Libby — Sgt. Roach
- Michael Rider — Pvt. Don Pike
- William Smith — Major Flynn
- Al Karaki — Kemp
- Evan J. Klisser — Larsen
- Evan Barker — Klinski
- A.J. Smith — Lt. Riley
- Bill Olmsted — Medic
- Directed
- Aaron Norris
- Written
- Rick Marx, Andrew Deutsch, David L. Walker
Production
- Rating
- 5.5 / 10 · 58 ratings
- Studio
- The Cannon Group, Breton Film 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.
