Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
- depression
- regret
- philosophy
- writing
- painting
- eavesdropping
- family relationships
- extramarital affair
- middle ages (476-1453)
- stepparent stepchild relationship
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Gene Hackman — Larry
- Betty Buckley — Kathy
- Martha Plimpton — Laura
- John Houseman — Marion's Father
- Sandy Dennis — Claire
- David Ogden Stiers — Young Marion's Father
- Philip Bosco — Sam
- Harris Yulin — Paul
- Frances Conroy — Lynn
- Fred Melamed — Patient's Voice / Engagement Party Guest
- Kenneth Welsh — Donald
- Directed
- Woody Allen
- Written
- Woody Allen
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 297 ratings
- Studio
- Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, Orion Pictures
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.














