Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from one of his student, Sydney Fuller.
- race against time
- toxication
- literature professor
- culprit
- relationship
- divorce
- glue
- woman director
- stealing manuscript
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Dennis Quaid
Dexter Cornell
Meg Ryan
Sydney Fuller
Charlotte Rampling
Mrs. Fitzwaring
Daniel Stern
Hal Petersham
- Jane Kaczmarek — Gail Cornell
- Christopher Neame — Bernard
- Robin Johnson — Cookie Fitzwaring
- Robert Knepper — Nicholas Lang
- Jay Patterson — Graham Corey
- Brion James — Detective Ulmer
- Jack Kehoe — Detective Brockton
- Elizabeth Arlen — Elaine Wells
- Karen Radcliffe — Jane Corey
- William Forward — Chief Resident
- Lee Gideon — Mr. Fitzwaring
- Directed
- Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 225 ratings
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures, Bigelow Productions, Laura Ziskin Productions, Silver Screen Partners III
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.
