Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
England, 1969. The fascinating Abbie and the troubled Lydia are great friends. After an unexpected tragedy occurs in the strict girls' school they attend, a mysterious epidemic of fainting breaks out that threatens the mental sanity and beliefs of the tormented people involved, both teachers and students.
- england
- female friendship
- schoolgirl
- mass hysteria
- sexual awakening
- fainting
- woman director
- 1960s
- mother daughter relationship
- girls' school
The bill
Maisie Williams
Lydia Lamont
Maxine Peake
Eileen Lamont
Greta Scacchi
Miss Edith Mantel
Monica Dolan
Miss Martha Alvaro
- Mathew Baynton — Mr. Hopkins
- Florence Pugh — Abbie Mortimer
- Joe Cole — Kenneth Lamont
- Morfydd Clark — Miss Pamela Charron
- Anna Burnett — Susan
- Evie Hooton — Janet
- Katie Ann Knight — Connie
- Lauren McCrostie — Gwen
- Elizabeth Marsh — Miss Fanshawe
- Hannah Stokely — Miss Ash
- Guy Morris — Teacher #1
- Directed
- Carol Morley
- Written
- Carol Morley
Production
- Rating
- 5.1 / 10 · 196 ratings
- Studio
- Cannon and Morley Productions, Independent, BBC Film, BFI, Boudica Red, Lipsync Productions
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.
