Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
- drug addiction
- drug rehabilitation
- hollywood
- based on memoir or autobiography
- mother daughter relationship
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Meryl Streep
Suzanne Vale
Shirley MacLaine
Doris Mann
Dennis Quaid
Jack Faulkner
Gene Hackman
Lowell Kolchek
- Richard Dreyfuss — Dr. Frankenthal
- Rob Reiner — Joe Pierce
- Mary Wickes — Grandma
- Conrad Bain — Grandpa
- Annette Bening — Evelyn Ames
- Simon Callow — Simon Asquith
- Gary Morton — Marty Wiener
- CCH Pounder — Julie Marsden
- Sidney Armus — Sid Roth
- Robin Bartlett — Aretha
- Barbara Garrick — Carol
- Directed
- Mike Nichols
- Written
- Carrie Fisher
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 296 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia 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.
