Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
- based on novel or book
- dystopia
- game show
- on the run
- totalitarian
- prison break
- paranoid
- dark future
- wrongly accused
- death game
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ben Richards
Richard Dawson
Damon Killian
María Conchita Alonso
Amber Mendez
Yaphet Kotto
William Laughlin
- Jim Brown — Fireball
- Jesse Ventura — Captain Freedom
- Erland van Lidth — Dynamo
- Marvin J. McIntyre — Harold Weiss
- Gus Rethwisch — Buzzsaw
- Professor Toru Tanaka — Subzero
- Mick Fleetwood — Mic
- Dweezil Zappa — Stevie
- Karen Leigh Hopkins — Brenda
- Sven-Ole Thorsen — Sven
- Edward Bunker — Lenny
- Directed
- Paul Michael Glaser
- Written
- Steven E. de Souza
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 2,958 ratings
- Studio
- Braveworld Productions, Keith Barish Productions, Taft Entertainment 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.
