Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
- vietnam war
- winter
- boarding school
- holiday
- boston
- massachusetts
- 1970s
- melancholy
- alcoholism
- grief
- misfit
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Paul Giamatti
Paul Hunham
Dominic Sessa
Angus Tully
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Mary Lamb
Carrie Preston
Miss Lydia Crane
- Brady Hepner — Teddy Kountze
- Ian Dolley — Alex Ollerman
- Jim Kaplan — Ye-Joon Park
- Michael Provost — Jason Smith
- Andrew Garman — Dr. Hardy Woodrup
- Naheem Garcia — Danny
- Stephen Thorne — Thomas Tully
- Gillian Vigman — Judy Clotfelter
- Tate Donovan — Stanley Clotfelter
- Darby Lee-Stack — Elise
- Bill Mootos — Mr. Endicott
- Directed
- Alexander Payne
- Written
- David Hemingson
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 2,652 ratings
- Studio
- Miramax, Gran Via 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.
