Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
- usa president
- washington dc
- usa
- based on novel or book
- identity
- autism
- impotence
- botanist
- philosophical
- ambivalent
- baffled
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Richard Dysart — Dr. Robert Allenby
- Richard Basehart — Vladimir Skrapinov
- Ruth Attaway — Louise
- David Clennon — Thomas Franklin
- Fran Brill — Sally Hayes
- Denise DuBarry — Johanna Franklin
- Alice Hirson — First Lady
- Jerome Hellman — Gary Burns
- John Harkins — Sidney Courtney
- James Noble — Kaufman
- Mitch Kreindel — Dennis Watson
- Directed
- Hal Ashby
- Written
- Jerzy Kosiński
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 1,157 ratings
- Studio
- Northstar Media, Lorimar Motion Pictures, BSB, CIP, NatWest Ventures
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.
