Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 156 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
- vietnam veteran
- new york city
- blindness and impaired vision
- scholarship
- boarding school
- tango
- thanksgiving
- limousine
- new hampshire
- colonel
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Philip Seymour Hoffman — George Willis, Jr.
- Richard Venture — W.R. Slade
- Bradley Whitford — Randy
- Ron Eldard — Officer Gore
- Rochelle Oliver — Gretchen
- Margaret Eginton — Gail
- Tom Riis Farrell — Garry
- Nicholas Sadler — Harry Havemeyer
- Todd Louiso — Trent Potter
- Matt Smith — Jimmy Jameson
- Gene Canfield — Manny
- Directed
- Martin Brest
- Written
- Bo Goldman
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 4,066 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, City Light Films
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.
