Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 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.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
- new york city
- street gang
- gangster
- disc jockey
- gang war
- coney island
- survival
- pursuit
- gang member
- new york subway
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- David Harris — Cochise
- Deborah Van Valkenburgh — Mercy
- Brian Tyler — Snow
- Tom McKitterick — Cowboy
- Marcelino Sánchez — Rembrandt
- Roger Hill — Cyrus
- Steve James — Baseball Fury
- Terry Michos — Vermin
- Lynne Thigpen — D.J.
- Mercedes Ruehl — Policewoman
- John Snyder — Gas Station Man
- Directed
- Walter Hill
- Written
- David Shaber, Walter Hill
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 2,457 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Lawrence Gordon Productions
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.
