Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.
- upper class
- midlife crisis
- connecticut
- swimming pool
- neighbor
- swimmer
- disillusionment
- based on short story
- pool party
- existential crisis
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Burt Lancaster
Ned Merrill
Janet Landgard
Julie Ann Hooper
Janice Rule
Shirley Abbott
Tony Bickley
Donald Westerhazy
- Marge Champion — Peggy Forsburgh
- Nancy Cushman — Mrs. Halloran
- Bill Fiore — Howie Hunsacker
- Rose Gregorio — Sylvia Finney
- David Garfield — Ticket Seller
- Kim Hunter — Betty Graham
- Charles Drake — Howard Graham
- Bernie Hamilton — Chauffeur
- House Jameson — Mr. Halloran
- Jimmy Joyce — Jack Finney
- Michael Kearney — Kevin Gilmartin
- Directed
- Frank Perry
- Written
- Eleanor Perry
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 267 ratings
- Studio
- Horizon Pictures, 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.
