Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
- small town
- new love
- based on novel or book
- texas
- graduation
- high school graduation
- billiard hall
- graduation present
- black and white
- elopement
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Timothy Bottoms
Sonny Crawford
Cybill Shepherd
Jacy Farrow
Jeff Bridges
Duane Jackson
Cloris Leachman
Ruth Popper
- Ellen Burstyn — Lois Farrow
- Ben Johnson — Sam the Lion
- Randy Quaid — Lester Marlow
- Clu Gulager — Abilene
- Eileen Brennan — Genevieve
- Sam Bottoms — Billy
- Sharon Ullrick — Charlene Duggs
- Bill Thurman — Coach Popper
- Jessie Lee Fulton — Miss Mosey
- Helena Humann — Jimmie Sue
- Barc Doyle — Joe Bob Blanton
- Directed
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Written
- Peter Bogdanovich, Larry McMurtry
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 797 ratings
- Studio
- BBS Productions, Columbia Pictures
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.
