Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 142 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.
- biography
- based on true story
- clergyman
- child in peril
- police corruption
- los angeles
- california
- single mother
- street urchin
- missing child
- mental asylum
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Angelina Jolie
Christine Collins
John Malkovich
Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Jeffrey Donovan
Captain J.J. Jones
Michael Kelly
Detective Lester Ybarra
- Colm Feore — Chief James E. Davis
- Jason Butler Harner — Gordon Northcott
- Amy Ryan — Carol Dexter
- Geoff Pierson — S.S. Hahn
- Denis O'Hare — Dr. Jonathan Steele
- Frank Wood — Ben Harris
- Peter Gerety — Dr. Earl W. Tarr
- Reed Birney — Mayor Cryer
- Gattlin Griffith — Walter Collins
- Michelle Gunn — Sandy
- Jan Devereaux — Operator
- Directed
- Clint Eastwood
- Written
- J. Michael Straczynski
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 4,588 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Relativity Media, Malpaso 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.
