Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
- friendship
- 1970s
- melancholy
- beehive
- remarriage
- neighbor
- death
- writing workshop
- makeup artist
- camper
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Anna Chlumsky
Vada Sultenfuss
Macaulay Culkin
Thomas J. Sennett
Dan Aykroyd
Harry Sultenfuss
Jamie Lee Curtis
Shelly DeVoto
- Richard Masur — Phil Sultenfuss
- Griffin Dunne — Mr. Jake Bixler
- Ann Nelson — Gramoo Sultenfuss
- Peter Michael Goetz — Dr. Welty
- Jane Hallaren — Nurse Randall
- Anthony R. Jones — Arthur
- Tom Villard — Justin
- Lara Steinick — Ronda
- Kristian Truelsen — Charles
- David Caprita — Ray
- Jody Wilson — Mrs. Hunsaker
- Directed
- Howard Zieff
- Written
- Laurice Elehwany
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 2,358 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment
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.
