Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.
- holiday
- generations conflict
- baltimore
- usa
- thanksgiving
- family clan
- family conflict
- woman director
- christmas
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Holly Hunter
Claudia Larson
Robert Downey Jr.
Tommy Larson
Anne Bancroft
Adele Larson
Charles Durning
Henry Larson
- Dylan McDermott — Leo Fish
- Geraldine Chaplin — Aunt Glady
- Steve Guttenberg — Walter Wedman
- Cynthia Stevenson — Joanne Larson Wedman
- Claire Danes — Kitt Larson
- Emily Ann Lloyd — Brittany Lace
- Zack Duhame — Walter Wedman Jr.
- Austin Pendleton — Peter Arnold
- David Strathairn — Russell Terziak
- Amy Yasbeck — Ginny Johnson Drewer
- Celeste Lecesne — Ron Drewer
- Directed
- Jodie Foster
- Written
- W.D. Richter, Chris Radant
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 195 ratings
- Studio
- Egg Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
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