Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.
- school friend
- depression
- high school
- friendship
- based on novel or book
- trauma
- coming of age
- freshman
- school
- teenage boy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Kate Walsh — Mother
- Dylan McDermott — Father
- Melanie Lynskey — Aunt Helen
- Nina Dobrev — Candace
- Johnny Simmons — Brad
- Joan Cusack — Dr. Burton
- Paul Rudd — Mr. Anderson
- Nicholas Braun — Ponytail Derek
- Reece Thompson — Craig
- Patrick de Ledebur — Senior Bully
- Brian Balzerini — Linebacker
- Directed
- Stephen Chbosky
- Written
- Stephen Chbosky
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 11,420 ratings
- Studio
- Mr. Mudd
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.
