Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- 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
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
- baby
- nightmare
- mutant
- claustrophobia
- parents-in-law
- pencil
- surrealism
- black and white
- torture
- parallel world
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Judith Roberts — Beautiful Girl Across the Hall
- Laurel Near — Lady in the Radiator
- Jack Fisk — Man in the Planet
- Jean Lange — Grandmother
- Thomas Coulson — The Boy
- John Monez — Bum
- Darwin Joston — Paul
- T. Max Graham — The Boss
- Hal Landon Jr. — Pencil Machine Operator
- Jennifer Lynch — Little Girl
- Brad Keeler — Little Boy
- Directed
- David Lynch
- Written
- David Lynch
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 2,798 ratings
- Studio
- AFI
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.
