Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. With no one else to turn to, he asks young former student Laura Wisely for a ride. Laura, upset over a break-up, agrees to drive him in her parents' car - which alarms her mother and father, who worry that she has run away with a married man and subsequently alert the police.
- england
- chaos
- principal
- train
The bill
John Cleese
Brian Stimpson
Penelope Wilton
Pat Garden
Alison Steadman
Gwenda Stimpson
Stephen Moore
Mr. John Jolly
- Joan Hickson — Mrs. Ellie Trellis
- Benjamin Whitrow — Headmaster
- Geoffrey Palmer — Headmaster
- Michael Aldridge — Prior
- Sharon Maiden — Laura Wisely
- Penny Leatherbarrow — Woman Teacher
- Howard Lloyd-Lewis — Ted
- Jonathan Bowater — Clint
- Mark Bunting — Studious Boy
- Robert Wilkinson — Streaker
- John Bardon — Ticket Collector
- Directed
- Christopher Morahan
- Written
- Michael Frayn
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 224 ratings
- Studio
- Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment
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