Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.
- civil war
- politics
- militia
- journalism
- illegal immigration
- baffled
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Beau Bridges
Governor Jim Farley
Joanna Cassidy
Helena Newman
James Coburn
Jack Buchan
Kevin Dunn
Jimmy Cannon
- Phil Hartman — The President
- Dan Hedaya — Mel Burgess
- James Earl Jones — Jim Kalla
- Denis Leary — Vinnie Franco
- Elizabeth Peña — Christina Fernandez
- Ron Perlman — Alan Manieski
- Brian Keith — General Buford
- Kevin McCarthy — Chief of Staff
- Dick Miller — Eddie O'Neill
- William Schallert — Secretary of Defense
- Catherine Lloyd Burns — Amelia Sims
- Directed
- Joe Dante
- Written
- Martyn Burke
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 56 ratings
- Studio
- Baltimore Pictures, HBO
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.
