Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America's first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.
- violence in schools
- massacre
- adult animation
- school shooting
- animated documentary
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Violett Beane
Claire Wilson James
Chris Doubek
Allen Crum
Blair Jackson
Houston McCoy
Louie Arnette
Ramiro "Ray" Martinez
- Josephine McAdam — Rita Starpattern
- Aldo Ordoñez — Aleck Hernandez Jr.
- Seamus Bolivar-Ochoa — John "Artly" Fox
- Monty Muir — Neal Spelce
- Cole Bee Wilson — Tom Eckman
- Vicky Illk — Brenda Bell
- Anthony Martinez — Lee "Junior" Zamora
- Rebecca Beegle — Comforting Woman
- Ron Pippin — Phil Miller
- Timothy Lucas — Kent Kirkley
- Karen Davidson — Margaret C. Berry
- Directed
- Keith Maitland
- Written
- Keith Maitland, Sarah Wilson
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 208 ratings
- Studio
- Independent Lens, Go-Valley
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.
