Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
- new york city
- police brutality
- hip-hop
- italian american
- culture clash
- chaos
- heat
- street war
- restaurant critic
- radio transmission
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Giancarlo Esposito — Buggin Out
- Spike Lee — Mookie
- Bill Nunn — Radio Raheem
- John Turturro — Pino
- Paul Benjamin — ML
- Frankie Faison — Coconut Sid
- Robin Harris — Sweet Dick Willie
- Joie Lee — Jade
- Miguel Sandoval — Officer Ponte
- Rick Aiello — Officer Long
- John Savage — Clifton
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 2,065 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
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.
