Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 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
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.
- department store
- rich kid
- trophy wife
- employment termination
- richard pryor
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Richard Pryor
Jack Brown
Jackie Gleason
Ulysses Simpson 'U.S.' Bates
Ned Beatty
Sydney Morehouse
Scott Schwartz
Eric Bates
- Teresa Ganzel — Fancy Bates
- Wilfrid Hyde-White — Barkley
- Tony King — Clifford
- Annazette Chase — Angela
- Don Hood — O'Brien
- Karen Leslie-Lyttle — Fraulein
- Virginia Capers — Ruby Simpson
- Steve Kahan — State Trooper
- B.J. Hopper — Geffran
- Ray Spruell — Senator Newcomb
- Stocker Fontelieu — District Attorney Russell
- Directed
- Richard Donner
- Written
- Carol Sobieski
Production
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 · 235 ratings
- Studio
- Delphi Films, Columbia Pictures, Rastar Productions
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.
