Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.
- american dream
- american way of life
- moscow
- russia
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Robin Williams
Vladimir Ivanoff
María Conchita Alonso
Lucia Lombardo
Cleavant Derricks
Lionel Witherspoon
Alejandro Rey
Orlando Ramirez
- Savely Kramarov — Boris, KGB agent
- Elya Baskin — Anatoly Cherkasov
- Oleg Rudnik — Yuri
- Aleksandr Beniaminov — Vladimir's Grandfather
- Lyudmila Kramarevskaya — Vladimir's Mother
- Ivo Vrzal-Wiegand — Vladimir's Father
- Tiger Haynes — Lionel's Grandfather
- Eyde Byrde — Lionel's Mother
- Robert MacBeth — Lionel's Stepfather
- Donna Ingram-Young — Leanne Witherspoon
- Yury Olshansky — Blozonov
- Directed
- Paul Mazursky
- Written
- Paul Mazursky, Leon Capetanos
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 228 ratings
- Studio
- Bavaria Film, ML Delphi Premier Productions, Columbia Pictures, Taurus Film
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.
