Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 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
Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
- small town
- based on novel or book
- slapstick comedy
- city country contrast
- vermont
- rural america
The bill
Chevy Chase
Andy Farmer
Madolyn Smith Osborne
Elizabeth Farmer
Kevin O'Morrison
Sheriff Ledbetter
Joseph Maher
Michael Sinclair
- Jack Gilpin — Bud Culbertson
- Caris Corfman — Betsy Culbertson
- William Severs — Newspaper Editor
- Mike Starr — Crocker
- Glenn Plummer — Mickey
- William Duell — Old Character
- Helen Lloyd Breed — Old Operator
- Kit Le Fever — Young Operator
- Dakin Matthews — Marion Corey Jr.
- William Newman — Gus Lotterhand
- Alice Drummond — Mrs. Ethel Dinges
- Directed
- George Roy Hill
- Written
- Jeffrey Boam
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 300 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
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.
