Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.
- adolescence
- cooking
- nostalgia
- autobiography
- based on memoir or autobiography
- cookies
- lgbt
- woman director
- 1960s
- mother son relationship
The bill
- Helena Bonham Carter — Mrs Potter
- Matthew McNulty — Josh
- Rob Jarvis — Fishmonger
- Selina Cadell — Ruby
- Amy Marston — Primary School Teacher
- Marion Bailey — Mrs. Adams
- Tracey Wilkinson — Sheila
- Clare Higgins — Mavis
- Ben Aldridge — Stuart
- Sarah Middleton — Beany
- Kia Pegg — Milk Girl
- Directed
- SJ Clarkson
- Written
- Lee Hall
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 270 ratings
- Studio
- Screen West Midlands, BBC Film, Ruby Films
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