Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he's scared of heights. He can master the information in any book ... for about thirty seconds. Now his friends and family want him to protect their community from the dreaded Golden Lords.
- hero
- street gang
- music teacher
- superhero
- parody
- super power
- complex
The bill
- James Earl Jones — Earnest Moses
- Roy Fegan — Simon
- Don Cheadle — Goldilocks
- Sinbad — Malik, Stacy's Boyfriend
- Frank Gorshin — Byers the Mobster
- Big Daddy Kane — Pirate
- Bill Cosby — Marvin
- Chris Tucker — MC in Mall (uncredited)
- Wallace Shawn — Mr. Little
- Bobby McGee — Uzi, Golden Lord Gunman
- Joel Weiss — Orderly
- Directed
- Robert Townsend
- Written
- Robert Townsend
Production
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 · 203 ratings
- Studio
- Tinsel Townsend, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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.
