Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 89 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.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.
- coming out
- suicide
- based on novel or book
- parent child relationship
- based on true story
- grief
- male homosexuality
- tragic event
- lgbt
- death of son
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Sigourney Weaver
Mary Griffith
Henry Czerny
Robert Griffith
Ryan Kelley
Bobby Griffith
Austin Nichols
Ed Griffith
- Carly Schroeder — Joy Griffith
- Scott Bailey — David
- Rebecca Louise Miller — Jeanette
- Shannon Eagen — Nancy Griffith
- Susan Ruttan — Betty Lambert
- Dan Butler — Reverend Whitsell
- Lee Garlington — Psychologist
- Madge Levinson — Ophelia
- Marshall McClean — Reverend Owens
- Anna Badalamenti — Michelle
- Ele Bardha — Doug
- Directed
- Russell Mulcahy
- Written
- Katie Ford
Production
- Rating
- 8.1 / 10 · 647 ratings
- Studio
- Once Upon a Time Films, Sladek Taaffe Productions, Permut Presentations
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.
