Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
- domestic violence
- killer
- biting
- angry
- detached
- aggressive
- grim
- malicious
- anxious
- dramatic
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Farrah Fawcett
Francine Hughes
Paul Le Mat
Mickey Hughes
Richard Masur
Aryon Greydanus
Grace Zabriskie
Flossie Hughes
- Penelope Milford — Gaby
- Christa Denton — Christy, Age 12
- James T. Callahan — Berlin Hughes
- Gary Grubbs — District Attorney
- David Andrews — Wimpy Hughes
- James Hampton — Police Witness
- Virgil Frye — Virg
- Dixie K. Wade — Hazel Moran
- Heather Rich — Christy, Age 6
- Justin Gocke — Jimmy, Age 4
- Elizabeth Lyn Fraser — Nicole
- Directed
- Robert Greenwald
- Written
- Rose Leiman Goldemberg
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 54 ratings
- Studio
- Tisch/Avnet Productions 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.
