Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
- japan
- world war ii
- radio transmission
- marine corps
- us army
- native american
- code
- based on true story
- navajo
- pacific war
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Nicolas Cage
Sergeant Joe Enders
Adam Beach
Private Ben Yahzee
Peter Stormare
Sergeant Eric Hjelmstad
Noah Emmerich
Corporal Charles Rogers
- Mark Ruffalo — Pappas
- Brian Van Holt — Harrigan
- Martin Henderson — Private Nellie
- Roger Willie — Charlie Whitehorse
- Frances O'Connor — Rita Swelton
- Christian Slater — Sergeant Peter Henderson
- Jason Isaacs — Major Mellitz
- William Morts — Fortino
- Cameron Thor — Mertens
- Kevin Cooney — Ear Doctor
- Holmes Osborne — Colonel Hollings
- Directed
- John Woo
- Written
- John Rice, Joe Batteer
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 1,447 ratings
- Studio
- Lion Rock Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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.
