Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
- new york city
- newspaper
- police
- alcohol
- detective
- murder
- serial killer
- neo-noir
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- William Hickey — Frank Keller Sr.
- Richard Jenkins — Gruber
- Paul Calderon — Serafino
- Gene Canfield — Struk
- Larry Joshua — Dargan
- John Spencer — Lieutenant
- Christine Estabrook — Gina Gallagher / Lonelyheart
- Barbara Baxley — Miss Allen
- Patricia Barry — Older Woman
- Mark Phelan — Murdered Man
- Michael O'Neill — Raymond Brown
- Directed
- Harold Becker
- Written
- Richard Price
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 707 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
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.
