Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie's plot into action and offers to kill Larry's ex-wife, if Larry promises to murder his mom. Before Larry gets a chance to react to the plan, it seems that Owen has already set things in motion.
- writer's block
- train
- overbearing mother
- ex-wife
- aspiring writer
- mystery writer
- crime fiction writer
- dominant mother
- murder swap
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Kate Mulgrew — Margaret Donner
- Branford Marsalis — Lester
- Rob Reiner — Joel
- Bruce Kirby — Detective DeBenedetto
- Joey DePinto — Sergeant
- Annie Ross — Mrs. Hazeltine
- Raye Birk — Pinsky
- Oprah Winfrey — Oprah Winfrey
- Olivia Brown — Ms. Gladstone
- Philip Perlman — Mr. Perlman
- Stu Silver — Ramon
- Directed
- Danny DeVito
- Written
- Stu Silver
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 674 ratings
- Studio
- Orion 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.
