Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 188 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
- suicide
- helicopter
- cheating
- loss of loved one
- fishing
- jazz singer or musician
- modern society
- cellist
- earthquake
- los angeles
- california
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Andie MacDowell
Ann Finnigan
Bruce Davison
Howard Finnigan
Jack Lemmon
Paul Finnigan
Tim Robbins
Gene Shepard
- Julianne Moore — Marian Wyman
- Tom Waits — Earl Piggot
- Lily Tomlin — Doreen Piggot
- Fred Ward — Stuart Kane
- Chris Penn — Jerry Kaiser
- Frances McDormand — Betty Weathers
- Madeleine Stowe — Sherri Shepard
- Jennifer Jason Leigh — Lois Kaiser
- Anne Archer — Claire Kane
- Matthew Modine — Dr. Ralph Wyman
- Lili Taylor — Honey Bush
- Directed
- Robert Altman
- Written
- Frank Barhydt, Robert Altman
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 689 ratings
- Studio
- Spelling Films International, Avenue Pictures
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.
