Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
In 1969, while studying at the University of Maine, artist Alan Parker becomes obsessed with death. Believing he is losing his girlfriend, he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends manage to stop him. He receives news that his mother has had a stroke and decides to hitchhike to visit her at the hospital.
- suicide
- ex-girlfriend
- apoplectic stroke
- halloween
- roller coaster / rollercoaster
- woman smoking
- hitchhiking
- loss of mother
- adaptation
- visions
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jonathan Jackson
Alan Parker
Barbara Hershey
Jean Parker
David Arquette
George Staub
Erika Christensen
Jessica Hadley
- Cliff Robertson — Farmer
- Nicky Katt — Ferris
- Matt Frewer — Mr. Clarkson
- Barry W. Levy — Julian Parker
- Jackson Warris — Alan, Age 6
- Jeffrey Ballard — Alan, Age 12
- Peter LaCroix — Mature Alan
- Chris Gauthier — Hector Passmore
- Robin Nielsen — Archie Howard
- Simon Webb — Grim Reaper
- Keith Dallas — Orderly
- Directed
- Mick Garris
- Written
- Mick Garris
Production
- Rating
- 5.1 / 10 · 222 ratings
- Studio
- Motion Picture Corporation of America, Apollo Productions
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.
