Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 79 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
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
- great depression
- celebrity
- mockumentary
- chameleon
- psychiatrist
- found footage
- newsreel footage
- electroconvulsive therapy
- 1920s
- 1930s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Woody Allen
Leonard Zelig
Mia Farrow
Dr. Eudora Nesbitt Fletcher
Patrick Horgan
The Narrator (voice)
John Buckwalter
Dr. Sindell
- Marvin Chatinover — Glandular Diagnosis Doctor
- Stanley Swerdlow — Mexican Food Doctor
- Paul Nevens — Dr. Birsky
- Howard Erskine — Hypodermic Doctor
- Richard Whiting — Other Doctor
- Ralph Bell — Other Doctor
- Will Hussung — Other Doctor
- Gale Hansen — Freshman #1
- Michael Jeter — Freshman #2
- Peter McRobbie — Workers Rally Speaker
- Richard Litt — Charles Koslow
- Directed
- Woody Allen
- Written
- Woody Allen
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 928 ratings
- Studio
- Orion Pictures, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe 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.
