Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 83 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
A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.
- commercial
- journalism
- manipulation of the media
- satire
- tv ratings
- television producer
- sketch comedy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Evan C. Kim
Loo (segment "A Fistful of Yen")
Bong Soo Han
Dr. Klahn (segment "A Fistful of Yen")
Agneta Eckemyr
Ming Chow (segment "A Fistful of Yen")
Marilyn Joi
Cleopatra Schwartz (segment "Cleopatra Schwartz")
- Saul Kahan — Schwartz (segment "Cleopatra Schwartz")
- Marcy Goldman — Housewife (segment "Household Odors")
- Bill Bixby — Himself (segment "Headache Clinic")
- John Landis — TV Technician Thrown by Gorilla (segment "A.M. Today")
- Dulcie Jordan — Guest #1 (segment "Household Odors")
- Gracia Lee — Guest #2 (segment "Household Odors")
- Sheila Rogers — Guest #3 (segment "Household Odors")
- George Lazenby — The Architect (segment "That's Armageddon")
- Victoria Carroll — The Nurse (segment "That's Armageddon")
- Donald Sutherland — The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
- Henry Gibson — Himself (segment "United Appeal for the Dead")
- Directed
- John Landis
- Written
- Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 370 ratings
- Studio
- United Film Distribution Company (UFDC), Kentucky Fried Theatre, Taurus Film
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.
