Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
The story
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
- london
- england
- photographer
- musical
- modeling
- 1950s
- teenager
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Eddie O'Connell
Colin, Photographer / Narrator
Patsy Kensit
Suzette
James Fox
Henley of Mayfair, Dressmaker to the Queen
David Bowie
Vendice Partners
- Ray Davies — Arthur, Colin's Dad
- Mandy Rice-Davies — Flora, Colin's Mum
- Eve Ferret — Big Jill
- Tony Hippolyte — Mr. Cool
- Graham Fletcher-Cook — Wizard
- Joseph McKenna — Fabulous Hoplite
- Steven Berkoff — The Fanatic
- Sade — Athene Duncannon (as Sade Adu)
- Edward Tudor-Pole — Ed the Ted (as Tenpole Tudor)
- Bruce Payne — Flikker
- Alan Freeman — Call-Me-Cobber
- Directed
- Julien Temple
Production
- Rating
- 5.5 / 10 · 70 ratings
- Studio
- Goldcrest, Palace Pictures, Virgin Vision
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.
