Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
- rescue
- louisiana
- wilderness
- swamp
- gore
- national guard
- trap
- poacher
- bayou
- survival
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- T.K. Carter — Cribbs
- Lewis Smith — Stuckey
- Les Lannom — Casper
- Peter Coyote — Poole
- Alan Autry — Bowden
- Brion James — Trapper
- Sonny Landham — Hunter
- Allan Graf — Hunter
- Ned Dowd — Hunter
- Rob Ryder — Hunter
- Greg Guirard — Cajun Couple
- Directed
- Walter Hill
- Written
- David Giler, Walter Hill, Michael Kane
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 365 ratings
- Studio
- Cinema Group Ventures, Phoenix (II), 20th Century Fox
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.
