Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
- airplane
- world war ii
- time travel
- pearl harbor
- pacific war
- naval warfare
- 1940s
- 1980s
- japanese
- uss nimitz
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Kirk Douglas
Capt. Matthew Yelland
Martin Sheen
Warren Lasky
Katharine Ross
Laurel Scott
James Farentino
Wing Commander Richard T. Owens
- Ron O'Neal — Commander Dan Thurman
- Charles Durning — Senator Samuel Chapman
- Victor Mohica — Black Cloud
- James Coleman — Lt. Perry
- Soon-Tek Oh — Simura
- Alvin Ing — Lt. Kajima
- Lloyd Kaufman — LCdr. Kaufman
- Dan Fitzgerald — Navy Doctor
- Peter Douglas — Quartermaster
- Joe Lowry — Cdr. Damon
- Ted Richert — Tideman's Assistant
- Directed
- Don Taylor
- Written
- David Ambrose, Gerry Davis, Peter Powell, Thomas Hunter
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 689 ratings
- Studio
- Bryna Productions, United Artists
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.
