Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.
- future
- artificial intelligence (a.i.)
- boredom
- space travel
- destruction of planet
- anarchic comedy
- metrocolor
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill

Brian Narelle
Lt. Doolittle

Cal Kuniholm
Boiler

Dan O'Bannon
Sgt. Pinback alias Bill Fruge
Dre Pahich
Talby
- Adam Beckenbaugh — Bomb #20 (voice)
- Nick Castle — Alien
- Joe Saunders — Commander Powell (voice)
- Cookie Knapp — Muttercomputer (voice)
- Alan Sheretz — Bomb #19 (voice)
- John Carpenter — Talby Voice
- Miles Watkins — Watkins - Mission Control
- Directed
- John Carpenter
- Written
- Dan O'Bannon, John Carpenter
Production
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 · 674 ratings
- Studio
- Jack H. Harris Enterprises, University of Southern California
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.
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Lost in Space
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