Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, Germany
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
- witch
- hotel room
- based on novel or book
- hitman
- texas
- car journey
- new orleans
- louisiana
- dark comedy
- forbidden love
- melancholy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Harry Dean Stanton — Johnnie Farragut
- J.E. Freeman — Marcelles Santos
- Isabella Rossellini — Perdita Durango
- Grace Zabriskie — Juana Durango
- Calvin Lockhart — Reggie
- William Morgan Sheppard — Mr. Reindeer
- Crispin Glover — Dell
- Sheryl Lee — The Good Witch
- Sherilyn Fenn — Girl in Accident
- Jack Nance — 00 Spool
- Pruitt Taylor Vince — Buddy
- Directed
- David Lynch
- Written
- David Lynch
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 1,974 ratings
- Studio
- PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Propaganda Films, PolyGram Filmproduktion
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.
