Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader. But all that changes when a strange man informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires.
- high school
- vampire
- cheerleader
- dating
- fashion
- unlikely friendship
- valley girl
- duringcreditsstinger
- woman director
- teenage mortality
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Kristy Swanson
Buffy Summers
Donald Sutherland
Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Paul Reubens
Amilyn
Rutger Hauer
Lothos
- Luke Perry — Oliver Pike
- Hilary Swank — Kimberly Hannah
- Michele Abrams — Jennifer
- David Arquette — Benny
- Natasha Gregson Wagner — Cassandra
- Thomas Jane — Zeph
- Ricki Lake — Charlotte
- Stephen Root — Gary Murray
- Sasha Jenson — Grueller
- Candy Clark — Buffy's Mom
- Paris Vaughan — Nicole 'Nicki'
- Directed
- Fran Rubel Kuzui
- Written
- Joss Whedon
Production
- Rating
- 5.6 / 10 · 931 ratings
- Studio
- Kuzui Enterprises, 20th Century Fox, Sandollar Productions
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.
