Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.
- san diego
- california
- alien
- burlesque
- area 51
- alien space craft
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- 1980s
- ambivalent
- dignified
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Kristen Wiig — Ruth Buggs
- Bill Hader — Haggard
- Blythe Danner — Tara Walton
- Joe Lo Truglio — O'Reilly
- John Carroll Lynch — Moses Buggs
- Jane Lynch — Pat Stevenson
- David Koechner — Gus
- Jesse Plemons — Jake
- Sigourney Weaver — The Big Guy
- Mia Stallard — Young Tara
- Jeremy Owen — Sword Vendor
- Directed
- Greg Mottola
- Written
- Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 6,452 ratings
- Studio
- Relativity Media, Working Title Films, Big Talk Studios, Universal Pictures
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.
