The Neon Ceiling

1h 40m
DramaTV Movie
7.7

A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work is the neon sculptures he collects and attaches to the ceiling.

Cast

Gig Young
Jones
Lee Grant
Carrie Miller
Denise Nickerson
Paula Miller
Herb Edelman
Harry
William Smithers
Doctor Miller
Robert Pratt
Ferris Wheel Man
James McEachin
Highway Patrolman

Crew

Frank Pierson
Director
Howard Rodman
Writer
Carol Sobieski
Screenplay, Story
Robert F. Shugrue
Editor
Edward Rosson
Director of Photography
William Sackheim
Producer
Billy Goldenberg
Original Music Composer
Alexander A. Mayer
Art Direction

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