Tomorrow Night (1998)

User Rating:

4.6/10   

Director:

Louis C.K.

Writer:

Louis C.K. (writer)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Charles is the owner of a photo-shop. He is not too friendly and spends his evenings alone, and one day he finally decides to get a social life...

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Chuck Sklar	...	Charles
Martha Greenhouse	...	Florence
Heather Morgan	...	Lola
Rick Shapiro	...	Tina
J.B. Smoove	...	Mel the Mailman
Joseph Dolphin	...	Lester
Greg Hohn	...	Greg Hahn
Robert Smigel	...	Mail Room Guy With Glasses
Steve Carell	...	Mail Room Guy Without Glasses
Bruce Brown	...	Clean
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Todd Barry	...	Man Caught in Rain
Matt Besser
Bill Chott	...	The Fop
Nick DiPaolo	...	Nick
Jim Earl	...	Man caught in rain
Conan O'Brien	...	Himself
Amy Poehler	...	Woman Sprayed with Hose
Ian Roberts
Wanda Sykes
Matt Walsh

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Company:

Cicrus King Films

Trivia:

In the midst of production, Louis C.K. ran out of money for the film's budget. He showed a clip of the film during an appearance on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993) and asked for investors to help him finish the film. He received the money he needed.

worth seeing

An anal-retentive camera store manager with an odd sexual ritual, (i.e. sitting in large bowls of ice cream and masturbating) seeks a girlfriend and chooses from his customers.

He befriends an reclusive old woman and soon becomes her lover.

She tries to keep this from her insanely verbally abusive husband, and survives on the hope that her estranged son who has joined the military will return one day. The performances of the old couple are so bad that they are unsettlingly realistic. One can almost see the line between acting and being and wonders if this is intentional. If so, it's brilliant. If not, clever camp. I'm not sure which answer would be more disturbing.

The clever ending revolves around an unclaimed package of photos. The clerk finally musters up enough courage to break the unspoken ethics code of photo shop clerks and look at the photos. Only to see they are pictures of his own murder.

Very weird, which is good, but a little too boring to survive on weirdness alone.