Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
- mentally disabled
- individual
- loss of loved one
- yuppie
- autism
- car dealer
- egocentrism
- convertible
- road trip
- blackjack
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Dustin Hoffman
Raymond Babbitt
Tom Cruise
Charlie Babbitt
Valeria Golino
Susanna
Gerald R. Molen
Dr. Bruner
- Jack Murdock — John Mooney
- Michael D. Roberts — Vern
- Ralph Seymour — Lenny
- Lucinda Jenney — Iris
- Bonnie Hunt — Sally Dibbs
- Kim Robillard — Small Town Doctor
- Beth Grant — Mother at Farm House
- Dolan Dougherty — Farm House Kid
- Marshall Dougherty — Farm House Kid
- Patrick Dougherty — Farm House Kid
- John-Michael Dougherty — Farm House Kid
- Directed
- Barry Levinson
- Written
- Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 7,293 ratings
- Studio
- United Artists, Star Partners II, The Guber-Peters Company
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.
