Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 158 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
- newspaper
- research
- politics
- spy
- journalism
- interview
- tobacco
- insider
- conspiracy theory
- reporter
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Al Pacino
Lowell Bergman
Russell Crowe
Jeffrey Wigand
Christopher Plummer
Mike Wallace
Diane Venora
Liane Wigand
- Philip Baker Hall — Don Hewitt
- Lindsay Crouse — Sharon Tiller
- Debi Mazar — Debbie De Luca
- Stephen Tobolowsky — Eric Kluster
- Colm Feore — Richard Scruggs
- Bruce McGill — Ron Motley
- Gina Gershon — Helen Caperelli
- Michael Gambon — Thomas Sandefur
- Rip Torn — John Scanlon
- Lynne Thigpen — Mrs. Williams
- Hallie Eisenberg — Barbara Wigand
- Directed
- Michael Mann
- Written
- Eric Roth, Michael Mann
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 2,115 ratings
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures, Mann/Roth Productions, Forward Pass
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.
