Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."
- spacecraft
- space marine
- army
- moon
- based on novel or book
- asteroid
- intelligence
- dystopia
- buenos aires
- argentina
- space battle
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Casper Van Dien
Johnny D. Rico
Dina Meyer
Dizzy Flores
Denise Richards
Carmen Ibañez
Jake Busey
Private Ace Levy
- Neil Patrick Harris — Colonel Carl Jenkins
- Clancy Brown — Career Sergeant Zim
- Michael Ironside — Lieutenant Jean Rasczak
- Patrick Muldoon — Zander Barcalow
- Seth Gilliam — Private Sugar Watkins
- Rue McClanahan — Biology Teacher
- Blake Lindsley — Katrina McIntire
- Steven Ford — Lieutenant Willy
- Ungela Brockman — Corporal Birdie
- Bruce Gray — Sky Marshal Dienes
- Denise Dowse — Sky Marshal Tehat Meru
- Directed
- Paul Verhoeven
- Written
- Edward Neumeier
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 5,677 ratings
- Studio
- TriStar Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Jon Davison Productions, Big Bug 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.
