Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
- blow
- neominstrelsy
- phone book
- sharecropper
- tennis court
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Steve Martin
Navin R. Johnson
Bernadette Peters
Marie Kimble Johnson
Catlin Adams
Patty Bernstein
Mabel King
Mother
- Richard Ward — Father
- Carl Gottlieb — Iron Balls McGinty
- Dick Anthony Williams — Taj
- Bill Macy — Stan Fox
- M. Emmet Walsh — Madman
- Dick O'Neill — Frosty
- Maurice Evans — Hobart
- Helena Carroll — Hester
- Ren Woods — Elvira
- Pepe Serna — Punk #1
- Sonny Terry — Blues Singer
- Directed
- Carl Reiner
- Written
- Carl Gottlieb, Steve Martin, Michael Elias
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 930 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Aspen Film Society
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.
