Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
- civil rights
- racial segregation
- racism
- 1950s
- segregation
- african american history
- american history
- boycott
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Sissy Spacek
Miriam Thompson
Whoopi Goldberg
Odessa Cotter
Dwight Schultz
Norman Thompson
Ving Rhames
Herbert Cotter
- Dylan Baker — Tunker Thompson
- Erika Alexander — Selma Cotter
- Lexi Randall — Mary Catherine
- Richard Habersham — Theodore Cotter
- Jason Weaver — Franklin Cotter
- Crystal Robbins — Sara Thompson
- Cherene Snow — Claudia
- Chelcie Ross — Martin
- Dan Butler — Charlie
- Philip Sterling — Winston
- Schuyler Fisk — Judy (Girl at Oak Park)
- Directed
- Richard Pearce
- Written
- John Cork
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 161 ratings
- Studio
- Dave Bell Associates, New Visions 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.
