Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 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
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.
- lone wolf
- private school
- theater play
- theatre group
- theater director
- coming of age
- precocious child
- complex
- teenager
- comforting
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jason Schwartzman
Max Fischer
Bill Murray
Herman Blume
Olivia Williams
Rosemary Cross
Seymour Cassel
Bert Fischer
- Brian Cox — Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
- Mason Gamble — Dirk Calloway
- Sara Tanaka — Margaret Yang
- Stephen McCole — Magnus Buchan
- Luke Wilson — Dr. Peter Flynn
- Dipak Pallana — Mr. Adams
- Andrew Wilson — Coach Beck
- Marietta Marich — Mrs. Guggenheim
- Ronnie McCawley — Ronny Blume
- Keith McCawley — Donny Blume
- Hae Joon Lee — Alex
- Directed
- Wes Anderson
- Written
- Owen Wilson, Wes Anderson
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 2,801 ratings
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures, American Empirical Pictures
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