Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
- cold
- quarantine
- killing
- halloween
- slime
- disgust
- comet
- alien
- playboy
- remake
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Kevin Dillon
Brian Flagg
Shawnee Smith
Meg Penny
Donovan Leitch
Paul Taylor
Jeffrey DeMunn
Sheriff Herb Geller
- Candy Clark — Fran Hewitt
- Joe Seneca — Dr. Meddows
- Del Close — Reverend Meeker
- Paul McCrane — Deputy Bill Briggs
- Sharon Spelman — Mrs. Penny
- Beau Billingslea — Moss Woolsey
- Art LaFleur — Pharmacist / Mr. Penny
- Ricky Paull Goldin — Scott Jeskey
- Billy Beck — The Can Man
- Michael Kenworthy — Kevin Penny
- Douglas Emerson — Eddie Beckner
- Directed
- Chuck Russell
- Written
- Frank Darabont, Chuck Russell
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 1,089 ratings
- Studio
- TriStar Pictures, Palisades California Inc.
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.
