Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 139 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
- affectation
- biography
- 18th century
- highlands
- violent man
- scottish highlands
- joyous
- hopeful
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Liam Neeson
Robert Roy MacGregor
Jessica Lange
Mary MacGregor
John Hurt
John Graham
Tim Roth
Archibald Cunningham
- Eric Stoltz — Alan MacDonald
- Brian Cox — Killearn
- Jason Flemyng — Gregor
- Andrew Keir — Argyll
- Shirley Henderson — Morag
- Brian McCardie — Alasdair
- Gilbert Martin — Guthrie
- Vicki Masson — Betty
- Gilly Gilchrist — Iain
- Ewan Stewart — Coll
- David Hayman — Sibbald
- Directed
- Michael Caton-Jones
- Written
- Alan Sharp
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 722 ratings
- Studio
- United Artists, Talisman Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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.
