Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
- government
- fairy tale
- cold war
- supernatural
- baltimore
- usa
- laboratory
- orphan
- scientist
- magic realism
- capture
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Sally Hawkins
Elisa Esposito
Michael Shannon
Richard Strickland
Richard Jenkins
Giles
Octavia Spencer
Zelda Fuller
- Michael Stuhlbarg — Dr. Robert Hoffstetler
- Doug Jones — Amphibian Man
- David Hewlett — Fleming
- Nick Searcy — General Hoyt
- Stewart Arnott — Bernard
- Nigel Bennett — Mihalkov
- Lauren Lee Smith — Elaine Strickland
- Martin Roach — Brewster Fuller
- Allegra Fulton — Yolanda
- John Kapelos — Mr. Arzounian
- Morgan Kelly — Pie Guy
- Directed
- Guillermo del Toro
- Written
- Vanessa Taylor, Guillermo del Toro
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 13,055 ratings
- Studio
- Double Dare You, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Bull Productions, TSG Entertainment
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.
