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
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
- hotel
- great depression
- canary
- based on memoir or autobiography
- bellhop
- tuberculosis
- traveling salesman
- marbles
- elevator operator
- lock child
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jesse Bradford
Aaron Kurlander
Jeroen Krabbé
Mr. Kurlander
Lisa Eichhorn
Mrs. Kurlander
Karen Allen
Miss Mathey
- Spalding Gray — Mr. Mungo
- Elizabeth McGovern — Lydia
- Cameron Boyd — Sullivan
- Adrien Brody — Lester
- Joe Chrest — Ben
- John McConnell — Patrolman Burns
- Amber Benson — Ella McShane
- Kristin Griffith — Mrs. McShane
- Chris Samples — Billy Thompson
- Peggy Freisen — Mrs. Thompson
- Katherine Heigl — Christina Sebastian
- Directed
- Steven Soderbergh
- Written
- Steven Soderbergh
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 169 ratings
- Studio
- Gramercy Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Bona Fide Productions
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.
