Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
- new york city
- gambling
- professor
- money
- mafia
- debt
- jewish american
- gambling addiction
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Jacqueline Brookes — Naomi
- Burt Young — Carmine
- Carmine Caridi — Jimmy
- Carl W. Crudup — Spencer
- Stuart Margolin — Cowboy
- Vic Tayback — One
- Antonio Fargas — Pimp
- William Andrews — Basketball Coach
- Steven Keats — Howie
- Starletta DuPois — Monique
- James Woods — Bank Officer
- Directed
- Karel Reisz
- Written
- James Toback
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 135 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Winkler Films
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.
