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
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
- post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
- iraq war veteran
- u.s. soldier
- woman director
The bill
Ryan Phillippe
Brandon King
Abbie Cornish
Michelle
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Tommy Burgess
Channing Tatum
Steve Shriver
- Josef Sommer — Senator Orton Worrell
- Timothy Olyphant — Lieutenant Colonel Boot Miller
- Ciarán Hinds — Roy King
- Linda Emond — Ida King
- Steven Strait — Michael Colson
- Alex Frost — Shorty
- Rob Brown — Isaac 'Eyeball' Butler
- Victor Rasuk — Rico Rodriguez
- Quay Terry — Al 'Preacher' Colson
- Matthew Scott Wilcox — Harvey
- Connett Brewer — Curtis
- Directed
- Kimberly Peirce
- Written
- Mark Richard, Kimberly Peirce
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 286 ratings
- Studio
- MTV Films, Peirce Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin 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.
