Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, Canada
- 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
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
- sheriff
- coma
- based on novel or book
- sacrifice
- flashback
- premonition
- vision
- doctor
- car accident
- series of murders
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Christopher Walken
Johnny Smith
Brooke Adams
Sarah Bracknell
Tom Skerritt
Sheriff Bannerman
Herbert Lom
Dr. Sam Weizak
- Anthony Zerbe — Roger Stuart
- Colleen Dewhurst — Henrietta Dodd
- Martin Sheen — Greg Stillson
- Nicholas Campbell — Frank Dodd
- Sean Sullivan — Herb Smith
- Jackie Burroughs — Vera Smith
- Géza Kovács — Sonny Elliman
- Roberta Weiss — Alma Frechette
- Simon Craig — Chris Stuart
- Peter Dvorsky — Dardis
- Julie-Ann Heathwood — Amy
- Directed
- David Cronenberg
- Written
- Jeffrey Boam
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 1,876 ratings
- Studio
- The De Laurentiis Company, Lorimar Motion Pictures
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