Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 89 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
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
- small town
- texas
- breaking the fourth wall
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
David Byrne
Narrator / Lip-Syncher
John Goodman
Louis Fyne
Annie McEnroe
Kay Culver
Jo Harvey Allen
The Lying Woman
- Spalding Gray — Earl Culver
- Alix Elias — The Cute Woman
- Roebuck 'Pops' Staples — Mr. Tucker
- Tito Larriva — Ramon
- John Ingle — The Preacher
- Matthew Posey — The Computer Guy
- Swoosie Kurtz — The Lazy Woman
- Amy Buffington — Linda Culver
- Richard Dowlearn — Larry Culver
- Capucine De Wulf — The Little Girl on the Road
- Cynthia Gould — Factory Girl #1
- Directed
- David Byrne
- Written
- Beth Henley, Stephen Tobolowsky, David Byrne
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 145 ratings
- Studio
- Pressman Film, Gary Kurfirst Pictures, True Stories Venture, 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.
