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After Hours

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After Hours (1985)

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Reviews Counted:36

Fresh:33

Rotten:3

Average Rating:7.8/10

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Comedies

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Starring: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong

Starring: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, John Heard, Cheech Marin, Catherine O'Hara, Dick Miller, Bronson Pinchot

Director: Martin Scorsese

Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriter: Joseph Minion

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Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
10/18/08
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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Martin Scorsese’s take on NYC puts a hip spin on Joe Minion’s cleverly constructed nightmare.

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03/31/08
Ian Nathan
Ian Nathan
Empire Magazine
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During the 80s there was a slew of yuppie revenge flicks where film-makers visited horrors on the heads of young urban professionals and this is probably the best of that mini-genre.

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03/31/08
Channel 4 Film

Anxiety-ridden picture would have been pretty funny if it didn't play like a confirmation of everyone's worst fears about contemporary urban life.

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03/31/08
Variety Staff
Variety Staff
Variety
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Scorsese's orchestration of thematic development, narrative structure, and visual style is stunning in its detail and fullness; this 1985 feature reestablished him as one of the very few contemporary masters of filmmaking.

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03/31/08
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader

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03/29/07
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

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12/26/06
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Inventive film-making of the first order.

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

A SoHo version of Ulysses? A male rendition of Alice in Wonderland? In Scorsese's brilliant noir comedy, a bored and repressed Everyman becomes an alien in his own town, subjected to one surreal nightmare after another, mostly by women.

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05/30/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

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10/21/05
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

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08/02/05
Nicolas Lacroix
Nicolas Lacroix
Showbizz.net

No review available.

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05/06/05
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Film Threat

I love it for its unrelenting inventiveness, its constant motion and its curmudgeonly glass-half-empty outlook.

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09/20/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

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09/16/04
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

Scorsese's directing is at its best.

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08/31/04
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

After Hours is not, ultimately, a satisfying film, but it's often vigorously unsettling. In this season of homogenized pap, that should be read as praise.

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08/30/04
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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A Kafkaesque drama about paranoia and urban living.

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08/22/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Scorsese's showmanship ends up enhancing the film’s dreamlike, surrealist sense of encroaching hysteria.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
08/18/04
Eric Henderson
Eric Henderson
Slant Magazine

Darkly comedic and delightfully manic, After Hours is a fresh, funny look at one man's downward mental and emotional slide into an evening of unmitigated SoHo hell.

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08/16/04
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

Quintessentially New York

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06/10/04
Sarah Chauncey
Sarah Chauncey
Reel.com
 
 
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