Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
- based on novel or book
- escape
- suicide attempt
- identity
- insanity
- female friendship
- based on true story
- borderline personality disorder
- psychiatric hospital
- mental institution
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Elisabeth Moss — Polly
- Jared Leto — Tobias Jacobs
- Jeffrey Tambor — Dr. Potts
- Vanessa Redgrave — Dr. Wick
- Whoopi Goldberg — Valerie
- Angela Bettis — Janet
- Jillian Armenante — Cynthia
- Drucie McDaniel — M-G
- Alison Claire — Gretta
- Christina Myers — Margie
- Joanna Kerns — Annette
- Directed
- James Mangold
- Written
- James Mangold, Anna Hamilton Phelan, Lisa Loomer
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 4,267 ratings
- Studio
- Red Wagon Entertainment, Columbia 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.
