Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, Germany, United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
- biography
- idealism
- idealist
- national security agency (nsa)
- investigative journalism
- whistleblower
- political thriller
- surveillance state
- fighting the system
- mass surveillance
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Edward Snowden
Shailene Woodley
Lindsay Mills
Melissa Leo
Laura Poitras
Zachary Quinto
Glenn Greenwald
- Tom Wilkinson — Ewen MacAskill
- Scott Eastwood — Trevor James
- Timothy Olyphant — CIA Agent Geneva
- Ben Schnetzer — Gabriel Sol
- LaKeith Stanfield — Patrick Haynes
- Rhys Ifans — Corbin O'Brian
- Nicolas Cage — Hank Forrester
- Joely Richardson — Janine Gibson
- Jaymes Butler — Master Sgt. Robinson
- Robert Firth — Dr. Stilwell
- Ben Chaplin — Robert Tibbo
- Directed
- Oliver Stone
- Written
- Kieran Fitzgerald, Oliver Stone
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 4,762 ratings
- Studio
- KrautPack Entertainment, Vendian Entertainment, Endgame Entertainment, Wild Bunch, Open Road Films, TG Media
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.
