Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, Germany
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.
- vietnam veteran
- court case
- wound
- colony
- life-saver
- trial
- lawyer
- court martial
- yemen
- bold
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tommy Lee Jones
Col. Hayes Lawrence "Hodge" Hodges II
Samuel L. Jackson
Col. Terry L. Childers
Guy Pearce
Maj. Mark Biggs
Ben Kingsley
Ambassador Mourain
- Bruce Greenwood — National Security Advisor Bill Sokal
- Anne Archer — Mrs. Mourain
- Blair Underwood — Capt. Lee
- Philip Baker Hall — Gen. H. Lawrence Hodges
- Dale Dye — Gen. Perry
- Amidou — Dr. Ahmar
- Mark Feuerstein — Tom Chandler
- Nicky Katt — Hayes Hodges III
- Ryan Hurst — Corporal Hustings
- John Speredakos — Lawyer
- Baoan Coleman — Col. Binh Le Cao
- Directed
- William Friedkin
- Written
- Stephen Gaghan, Jim Webb
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 812 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Seven Arts Pictures, Munich Film Partners & Company (MFP) ROE Production, The Zanuck Company, Scott Rudin 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.
