Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
- california
- husband wife relationship
- sibling relationship
- literature professor
- family's daily life
- highway
- beauty contest
- beauty queen contest
- dysfunctional family
- road trip
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Greg Kinnear
Richard Hoover
Toni Collette
Sheryl Hoover
Steve Carell
Frank Ginsberg
Paul Dano
Dwayne Hoover
- Abigail Breslin — Olive Hoover
- Alan Arkin — Edwin Hoover
- Bryan Cranston — Stan Grossman
- Beth Grant — Nancy Jenkins
- Wallace Langham — Kirby
- Matt Winston — Pageant MC
- Julio Oscar Mechoso — Mechanic
- Marc Turtletaub — Doctor #1
- Jill Talley — Cindy
- Brenda Canela — Diner Waitress
- Chuck Loring — Convience Store Proprietor
- Directed
- Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton
- Written
- Michael Arndt
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 8,039 ratings
- Studio
- Big Beach, 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.
