Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
It's just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.
- small town
- california
- nuclear war
- dystopia
- disaster
- based on short story
- woman director
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jane Alexander
Carol Wetherly
William Devane
Tom Wetherly
Rossie Harris
Brad Wetherly
Roxana Zal
Mary Liz Wetherly
- Lukas Haas — Scottie Wetherly
- Philip Anglim — Hollis
- Lilia Skala — Fania
- Leon Ames — Henry Abhart
- Lurene Tuttle — Rosemary Abhart
- Rebecca De Mornay — Cathy Pitkin
- Kevin Costner — Phil Pitkin
- Mako — Mike
- Mico Olmos — Larry
- Gerry Murillo — Hiroshi
- J. Brennan Smith — Billdocker
- Directed
- Lynne Littman
- Written
- John Sacret Young, Carol Amen
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 144 ratings
- Studio
- American Playhouse, Entertainment Events, Paramount 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.
