Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, Sweden, United Kingdom
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
- based on novel or book
- world war ii
- filmmaking
- war propaganda
- woman director
- london blitz
- 1940s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gemma Arterton
Catrin Cole
Sam Claflin
Tom Buckley
Bill Nighy
Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank
Jack Huston
Ellis Cole
- Helen McCrory — Sophie Smith
- Eddie Marsan — Sammy Smith
- Jake Lacy — Carl Lundbeck / Brannigan
- Rachael Stirling — Phyl Moore
- Henry Goodman — Gabriel Baker
- Paul Ritter — Raymond Parfitt
- Richard E. Grant — Roger Swain
- Nicholas Murchie — Bus Conductor
- Amanda Root — Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
- Patrick Gibson — Rex, the Clapper Loader
- Darren Clarke — The Gaffer
- Directed
- Lone Scherfig
- Written
- Gaby Chiappe
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 457 ratings
- Studio
- BBC Film, HanWay Films, Number 9 Films, Filmgate Films, Ripken Productions, Pinewood Pictures
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