Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 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
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
- sheriff
- fbi
- new mexico
- desert
- suitcase full of money
- neo-noir
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Willem Dafoe
Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Lane Bodine
Mickey Rourke
Gorman Lennox
Samuel L. Jackson
Greg Meeker
- M. Emmet Walsh — Bert Gibson
- James Rebhorn — FBI Agent Flynn
- Maura Tierney — Noreen
- Beth Grant — Roz Kincaid
- Alexander Nicksay — Ben Dolezal
- Fredrick Lopez — Delmar Blackwater
- Miguel Sandoval — FBI Agent Ruiz
- John Lafayette — FBI Agent Demott
- Ken Thorley — Harold Kleinman
- Jack Kehler — Casanov
- Royce D. Applegate — Peterson
- Directed
- Roger Donaldson
- Written
- Daniel Pyne
Production
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 · 183 ratings
- Studio
- Morgan Creek Entertainment
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.
