Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 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
A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.
- parent child relationship
- writer
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
John Candy
Jack Gable
Mariel Hemingway
Janet Dubois / Louise
Emma Samms
Rachel Hedison / Laura Claybourne
Raymond Burr
Carter Hedison
- Dylan Baker — Blake Hedison
- Charles Rocket — Ty Hedison
- David Rasche — Dr. Paul Kirkwood / Dennis
- Andrea Thompson — Nurse Helen Caldwell
- Zach Grenier — Mickey
- Jerry Orbach — Lou Sherwood
- Renée Taylor — Arlene Sherwood
- Milt Oberman — Fetterman
- Mark Boone Junior — Cable Man
- Tony Steedman — Edward
- John Michael Bolger — Len
- Directed
- Tom Mankiewicz
- Written
- Lawrence J. Cohen, Fred Freeman
Production
- Rating
- 5.7 / 10 · 173 ratings
- Studio
- MGM-Pathé Communications, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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.
