Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.
- weather forecast
- lottery
- weather forecaster
- weather
- debt
- woman director
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Michael Rapaport — Dale
- Daryl Mitchell — Detective Chambers
- Bill Pullman — Detective Pat Lakewood
- Richard Schiff — Jerry Green
- Michael Moore — Walter
- Sam McMurray — Chief Troutman
- Michael Weston — Larry
- Maria Bamford — Wendy
- Caroline Aaron — Sharpling
- John F. O'Donohue — Bobby
- Colin Mochrie — Jack
- Directed
- Nora Ephron
- Written
- Adam Resnick
Production
- Rating
- 5.2 / 10 · 199 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, StudioCanal, Jonathan D. Krane Productions, Mad Chance, Alphaville Films
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.
