Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 151 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
- new york city
- concentration camp
- holocaust (shoah)
- world war ii
- writer
- poland
- 1940s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Stephen D. Newman — Larry
- Greta Turken — Leslie Lapidus
- Josh Mostel — Morris Fink
- Marcell Rosenblatt — Astrid Weinstein
- Moishe Rosenfeld — Moishe Rosenblum
- Robin Bartlett — Lillian Grossman
- Eugene Lipinski — Polish Professor
- John Rothman — Librarian
- Joseph Leon — Dr. Blackstock
- David Wohl — English Teacher
- Nina Polan — Woman in English Class
- Directed
- Alan J. Pakula
- Written
- Alan J. Pakula
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 957 ratings
- Studio
- ITC Entertainment, Keith Barish 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.
