Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
- new york city
- hostage
- motorcycle crash
- remake
- new york subway
- subway train
- stock market
- subway tunnel
- aftercreditsstinger
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- James Gandolfini — Mayor
- Michael Rispoli — John Johnson
- Gary Basaraba — Jerry Pollard, motorman
- Alex Kaluzhsky — George, teen hostage
- Alice Kremelberg — George's Girlfriend
- Katherine Sigismund — Mother-hostage
- Jake Siciliano — Boy hostage
- Gbenga Akinnagbe — Wallace, hostage
- Jason Butler Harner — Hostage who can't urinate
- Victor Gojcaj — Bashkim, hijacker
- Robert Vataj — Emri, hijacker
- Directed
- Tony Scott
- Written
- Brian Helgeland
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 3,485 ratings
- Studio
- Escape Artists, Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Scott Free 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.
