Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
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
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.
- vietnam veteran
- post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
- repayment
- prisoner of war
- motel
- flashback
- revenge
- shootout
- home invasion
- hook for a hand
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
William Devane
Major Charles Rane
Tommy Lee Jones
Johnny Vohden
Linda Haynes
Linda Forchet
James Best
Texan
- Dabney Coleman — Maxwell
- Lisa Blake Richards — Janet
- Luke Askew — Automatic Slim
- Lawrason Driscoll — Cliff
- James Victor — Lopez
- Cassie Yates — Candy
- Jordan Gerler — Mark
- Jane Abbott — Sister
- Jerry Brown — Patrolman #1
- Jacque Burandt — Bebe
- Anthony Castillo — Street Urchin
- Directed
- John Flynn
- Written
- Heywood Gould, Paul Schrader
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 267 ratings
- Studio
- American International Pictures, Lawrence Gordon Productions
If this stayed with you
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