Tomorrow Night (1998)

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. He meets elderly Florence, who is tormented ... See full summary »

Director:

Louis C.K.

Writer:

Louis C.K.

Stars:

Chuck Sklar, Martha Greenhouse, Heather Morgan

2 nominations.

Cast

Credited 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

Storyline

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. He meets elderly Florence, who is tormented by her gambling husband Lester and longs for the son Willie she hasn't seen or heard of for 20 years.

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Plot Keywords:

independent film

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 January 1998 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cicrus King Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

According to C.K., HBO provided him with $50,000 to make a print of the film. C.K. wanted to leave his position at The Chris Rock Show and Rock told HBO that he would quit the series if C.K. did not return. C.K. told HBO that he would return to the show if they gave him the money to print the film. C.K. was able to take the print to the Sundance Film Festival and returned for another season of the show.

User Reviews

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.