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After Hours, 1985

Starring: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Written by: Joseph Minion

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 97 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.6

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The mood of After Hours is atmospheric, offbeat, and suspenseful. The plot centers around nightlife, city life, and being down on your luck. It features dark humor. After Hours is a drama, independent, and comedy movie. Stylistically, it is surreal and involves twists and turns. In approach, it is realistic. After Hours takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. The setting is New York. It happens in the 1980s. After Hours is known for being critically acclaimed. Note that it includes mild violent content, nudity, and sexual content.

Summary of After Hours

A surrealistic black comedy that plays on the paranoia and dread of everyday life in the Big Apple, Martin Scorsese's After Hours captures what is easily the worst night of one man's life. Computer programmer Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) makes a casual date with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette), a woman he meets in a coffee shop, unaware that it's about to unleash a nightmarish odyssey through the bowels of lower Manhattan. Upon arriving at Marcy's spacious Soho loft, Paul meets her unnerving artist roommate, Kiki (Linda Fiorentino), and the night takes a turn for the worse. Sensing the bad vibes that lie ahead, he immediately decides to return to his home on the Upper East Side. Unfortunately, this isn't such an easy task. In a seemingly endless series of strange and dangerous encounters, Paul begins to fear that he might never make it home again. Working from a clever script by Joseph Minion, Scorsese's film is both hysterical and frightening in its depiction of an insane, neurotic New York City. As the unfortunate hero, Dunne delivers his lines with a baffled incredulousness that also works as a voice for the sympathetic audience, who doesn't know whether to laugh or cringe when things really begin to heat up.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	13 September 1985
Runtime:	97 min
Awards:	Cannes

Awards

Martin Scorsese for Best Director at the 1986 Cannes

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Griffin Dunne

as Paul Hackett

Rosanna Arquette

as Marcy Franklin

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

After Hours is a caffeinated black comedy with an emphasis on speed. With a small crew and a tight shooting schedule, Scorsese transformed limited means into a staccato burst of creative energy, playing up the extreme paranoia and frustration of a... Full Review

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by: Scott Tobias

TV Guide

A wickedly funny black comedy that follows the increasingly bizarre series of events that befall hapless word-processer Griffin Dunne after he ventures out of his apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and goes downtown in search of carnal... Full Review

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by: Staff (Not Credited)

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With swift and perfect camerawork, lighting, and music transforming seemingly pedestrian material — a soft-voiced male office worker (Griffin Dunne), leaving a now-museum-piece workplace of chattering typewriters, meets a beautiful woman (Rosanna... Read and rate it

22.March.2009
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by: thattherepaul
thattherepaul rated this movie10/10Must See

One crazy night downtown

A comedy that's both funny and a bit disturbing, when nothing goes right and one man has the worst and strangest night of his life. A well-made, clever film and one of my favorites by Scorsese. Read and rate it

04.October.2008
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by: Noa
Noa rated this movie0/10

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