Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States, Mexico
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
- guerrilla warfare
- journalist
- assassination
- civil war
- loss of loved one
- dictator
- war correspondent
- revolution
- civil rights
- dictatorship
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Woods
Richard Boyle
Jim Belushi
Doctor Rock
Michael Murphy
Ambassador Thomas Kelly
John Savage
John Cassady
- Elpidia Carrillo — Maria
- Tony Plana — Major Maximilliano Casanova
- Colby Chester — Jack Morgan
- Cynthia Gibb — Cathy Moore
- Will MacMillan — Colonel Bentley Hyde Sr.
- Valerie Wildman — Pauline Axelrod
- José Carlos Ruiz — Archbishop Romero
- Jorge Luke — Colonel Julio Figueroa
- Juan Fernández — Army Lieutenant
- Salvador Sánchez — Human Rights Leader
- Rosario Zúñiga — Human Rights Assistant
- Directed
- Oliver Stone
- Written
- Oliver Stone, Rick Boyle
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 421 ratings
- Studio
- Hemdale, Cinema '85, Estudios Churubusco Azteca
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.
