Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- Australia, United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
- australia
- letter
- child prodigy
- biography
- jumping
- pianist
- concert hall
- breakdown
- piano
- 1950s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Geoffrey Rush
David as an adult
Noah Taylor
David as an adolescent
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Peter
Lynn Redgrave
Gillian
- Googie Withers — Katharine Susannah Prichard
- Sonia Todd — Sylvia
- Nicholas Bell — Ben Rosen
- John Gielgud — Cecil Parkes
- Justin Braine — Tony
- Chris Haywood — Sam
- Alex Rafalowicz — David as a child
- Gordon Poole — Eisteddfod Presenter
- Danielle Cox — Suzie as a child
- Rebecca Gooden — Margaret
- Marta Kaczmarek — Rachel
- Directed
- Scott Hicks
- Written
- Jan Sardi, Scott Hicks
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 715 ratings
- Studio
- Film Victoria, Australian Film Finance Corporation, BBC Film, South Australian Film Corporation, Momentum 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.
