Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 144 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
- alcohol
- autograph
- aging
- apparition
- car accident
- nervous breakdown
- obsessed fan
- alcoholic
- broadway star
- stage play
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gena Rowlands
Myrtle Gordon
John Cassavetes
Maurice Aarons
Ben Gazzara
Manny Victor
Joan Blondell
Sarah Goode
- Paul Stewart — David Samuels
- Zohra Lampert — Dorothy Victor
- Laura Johnson — Nancy Stein
- John Tuell — Gus Simmons
- Ray Powers — Jimmy
- John Finnegan — Bobby
- Louise Lewis — Kelly (as Louise Fitch)
- Fred Draper — Leo
- Katherine Cassavetes — Vivian
- Lady Rowlands — Melva Drake
- Carol Warren — Carla
- Directed
- John Cassavetes
- Written
- John Cassavetes
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 267 ratings
- Studio
- Faces International Films
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