Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
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
As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
- right and justice
- husband wife relationship
- judge
- hitman
- secret society
- mission of murder
- serial killer
- los angeles
- california
- cynical
- miscarriage of justice
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Michael Douglas
Steven Hardin
Hal Holbrook
Benjamin Caulfield
Yaphet Kotto
Detective Harry Lowes
Sharon Gless
Emily Hardin
- James B. Sikking — Dr. Harold Lewin
- Joe Regalbuto — Arthur Cooms
- Don Calfa — Lawrence Monk
- John DiSanti — Detective James Wickman
- DeWayne Jessie — Stanley Flowers
- Jack Kehoe — Hingle
- Larry Hankin — Detective Kenneth Wiggan
- Dick Anthony Williams — Detective Paul Mackey
- Margie Impert — Louise Rachmil
- Dana Gladstone — Martin Hyatt
- David Proval — Officer Nelson
- Directed
- Peter Hyams
- Written
- Peter Hyams, Roderick Taylor
Production
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 · 187 ratings
- Studio
- Frank Yablans Presentations, 20th Century Fox
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.
