Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 163 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.
- adultery
- sibling relationship
- hostility
- bravery
- mythology
- beauty
- trojan war
- wall
- fraud
- sword fight
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Sean Bean — Odysseus
- Brendan Gleeson — Menelaus
- Diane Kruger — Helen
- Peter O'Toole — Priam
- Rose Byrne — Briseis
- Saffron Burrows — Andromache
- Garrett Hedlund — Patroclus
- Vincent Regan — Eudorus
- Julie Christie — Thetis
- Nathan Jones — Boagrius
- Mark Lewis Jones — Tecton
- Directed
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Written
- David Benioff
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 11,478 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Plan B Entertainment, Radiant Productions, Helena 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.
