Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.
- infidelity
- based on novel or book
- loss of loved one
- female lover
- investigation
- murder
- lawyer
- detroit
- michigan
- courtroom
- courtroom drama
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Harrison Ford
Rusty Sabich
Brian Dennehy
Raymond Horgan
Raúl Juliá
Sandy Stern
Bonnie Bedelia
Barbara Sabich
- Paul Winfield — Judge Larren Lyttle
- Greta Scacchi — Carolyn Polhemus
- John Spencer — Detective Dan Lipranzer
- Joe Grifasi — Tommy Molto
- Tom Mardirosian — Nico Della Guardia
- Anna Maria Horsford — Eugenia
- Sab Shimono — 'Painless' Kumagai
- Bradley Whitford — Jamie Kemp
- Christine Estabrook — Lydia 'Mac' MacDougall
- Michael Tolan — Mr. Polhemus
- Madison Arnold — Sergeant Lionel Kenneally
- Directed
- Alan J. Pakula
- Written
- Frank Pierson, Alan J. Pakula
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 841 ratings
- Studio
- Mirage Enterprises, Warner Bros. Pictures
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.
