Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
- street gang
- pool billiards
- gang
- thug
- tulsa
- oklahoma
- brother brother relationship
- based on young adult novel
- dreary
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Diana Scarwid — Cassandra
- Vincent Spano — Steve
- Nicolas Cage — Smokey
- Chris Penn — B.J. Jackson
- Laurence Fishburne — Midget
- William Smith — Patterson the Cop
- Michael Higgins — Mr. Harrigan
- Glenn Withrow — Biff Wilcox
- Tom Waits — Benny
- Herb Rice — Black Pool Player
- Maybelle Wallace — Late Pass Clerk
- Directed
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Written
- Francis Ford Coppola, S.E. Hinton
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 783 ratings
- Studio
- American Zoetrope, Hotweather Films
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.
