Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula. When they discover the eavesdropper, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and hotel manager Mr Stringer, Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.
- hotel
- witch
- based on novel or book
- grandparent grandchild relationship
- mouse
- transformation
- tree house
- based on children's book
- seaside
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jasen Fisher
Luke Eveshim
Mai Zetterling
Helga Eveshim
Anjelica Huston
Miss Eva Ernst
Charlie Potter
Bruno Jenkins
- Rowan Atkinson — Mr Stringer
- Bill Paterson — Mr Jenkins
- Brenda Blethyn — Mrs Jenkins
- Jane Horrocks — Miss Irvine
- Nora Connolly — Beatrice
- Rose English — Dora
- Jenny Runacre — Elsie
- Angelique Rockas — Henrietta
- Rosamund Greenwood — Janice
- Sukie Smith — Marlene
- Emma Relph — Millie
- Directed
- Nicolas Roeg
- Written
- Allan Scott
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 1,399 ratings
- Studio
- Lorimar Film Entertainment, Jim Henson Productions, Warner Bros. 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.
