Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.
- canada
- beer
- great depression
- depression era
- winnipeg
- prosthetic leg
- prosthesis
- music
- musical contest
- legless
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Isabella Rossellini
Lady Helen Port-Huntley
Mark McKinney
Chester Kent
Maria de Medeiros
Narcissa
David Fox
Fyodor Kent
- Ross McMillan — Roderick Kent / Gravillo the Great
- Louis Negin — Blind Seer
- Darcy Fehr — Teddy
- Claude Dorge — Duncan Elksworth
- Talia Pura — Mary
- Adriana O'Neil — Agnes
- Jeff Sutton — Young Chester
- Graeme Valentin — Young Roderick
- Maggie Nagle — Chester's Mother
- Victor Cowie — Man in Bar
- Jessica Burleson — Lady's Secretary
- Directed
- Guy Maddin
- Written
- Guy Maddin, George Toles, Kazuo Ishiguro
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 73 ratings
- Studio
- Rhombus Media, Buffalo Gal Pictures, Ego Film Arts
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.
