Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, Ireland
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
- elephant
- world war ii
- zoo
- based on true story
- northern ireland
- belfast
- north ireland
- air raid
- 1940s
- children in wartime
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Ian McElhinney — Mr. Shawcross
- Penelope Wilton — Denise Austin
- James Stockdale — Mickey
- Damian O'Hare — George Hall
- Amy Huberman — Emily Hall
- Stephen Hagan — Jake
- Lalor Roddy — Curfew Man 1
- Frank Cannon — Zookeeper
- Michael Stuart — Poacher
- Maggie Cronin — Matron
- Donncha Crowley — Headmaster Smyth
- Directed
- Colin McIvor
- Written
- Colin McIvor
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 111 ratings
- Studio
- Ripple World Pictures, Wee Buns Films
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.
