After Hours (1985) Reviews

After Hours (1985)
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Martin Scorsese's After Hours is a dark, tragi-comic tale of a fish out of water, centering on an uptight, white-bread computer consultant from uptown Manhattan who finds himself in the nightmarish and incomprehensible (to him) world of Soho after dark. The ordeal begins when Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) gets lonely and decides to leave the posh East Side and search the Soho streets for some loving from Marcy (Rosanna Arquette), the pretty young woman he met in a downtown cafe. He has her phone number and works up the nerve to call. She wants to see him, and so Paul grabs $20, hails a taxi and sets out. The weirdness begins when he loses his money during the high-speed cab ride. His visit to Marcy's loft, where he meets her crazed artist roommate Kiki (Linda Fiorentino), is a disaster, as is his encounter with the beehive-wearing retro waitress Julie (Teri Garr). ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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Starring:
Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, (more)
Director(s):
Martin Scorsese
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
R
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Emily S.

Another favorite of mine from scorcese. People focus on Scorceses monumental works and pan his dark comedies. this is brilliantly dark, almost painful...to watch griffin dunne stumble around the city after hours makes you yearn for the nightlife. Rosanna Arquette is alluring... but those burns! Terri Garr probably gives the best performance as the desperate cocktail waitress. Anyway, definitely worth a rental!

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PAUL S.

I had seen this movie a few years ago. Now that it is available on DVD, I decided to take another look. This is a cleaver look into the life of a guy that is put through the paces of a Kafka novel. The catch is that, they make it into a comedy. Directed by Scorsese, this movie is the hilarious look into one night of madness. It's almost like a descent into hell and back. Can anyone say "Dante's Inferno"? I highly recommend this film; if you like the Seinfeld paranoid comedy. A classic piece by Scorsese.

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Richard E.

This movie is definately off-beat, which is why I like it. I've seen it a few times over the years and wouldn't rent it if it wasn't worth seeing again. It's unlike any other flick out there. It holds your interest because the character keeps finding himself in unusual situations meeting these weird people over the course of a night in the city, and you don't know where he'll end up next. Only the brilliance of Scorcese could pull off a flick this strange and make it work. It stars Griffin Dunn (the dude that gets eaten in American Werewolf In London).

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S. G.

Definitely different. Definitely.

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Eric H.

409: playing what could seem like Paul(GD)'s suave demeanor as a foreshadowing fearfully quiet voice, the office slave stays up past the titles said time when every kind stranger who begins to help&horney blonde he begins an erotic scene with joins a mob of those falsely wronged by him that leads to an excitement succeeding lame 80's comedies that played dramatic angles too boringly while this film plays it dramatically in sudden anxieties brought on like panic attacks Scorsese's actually guilty criminal leads experience during Goodfellas&Casino's 2nd hour while not trying for Tommy's "funny guy" routine as this lightly dark humored thriller doesn't look for laughs of the next 20 years' Farely&Apatow style that saved the genre from boring TRAGI-COMEDY foot chases&death this overly exciting but under-received (sometimes soft porn denial) thriller explodes with over the 'Wizard of Oz' retelling that missed fulfilling the appreciation never allowed to us during this disaster(of a) comedy.

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Robert P.

You gotta "suspend disbelief" in a few of the sticky situations that the main character finds himself in, but allowing for that, this is a pretty funny movie. For sure, he has a very bad night, and virtually all of the unlikely coincidences that could happen DO HAPPEN. A very limited amount of frontal nudity, but otherwise, a pretty funny movie for most audiences.

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Ed K.

I found that watching this film, I tried to figure out what was coming next, but at every turn, they have a surprise. The end result is a great parody of what it is like to be lonely in a big city around other people. Great film

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Brian B.

I started to empathize with the character being "stuck" after-hours.. because that's the way this movie drags on, on, and on. There are too many coincidences, too many oddities of "Wait here... I'll be back.." and then the guy gets delayed. It just got ridiculous especially when a roving pack of gay vigilantes were scouring the area for a burglar (the character) with "Have you seen this guy?" signs hung everywhere.. all within like 40 minutes.. it's just a horrible movie that drags on and on and on. It's like we got the point after 20 minutes.. after 2 hours it just got patently ridiculous, seeing a lady shoot someone, a suicide, and then dropping the guy off at his workplace.. Cheech and Chong were hilarious, but were in this movie for 1.2 minutes. This movie is horrible.

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Luke P.

I just didn't get into the movie. There were some great parts but I didn't really like this movie compared to Scorsese's other films. But I think people who know New York would get into this movie a lot more than I did.

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Wei L.

... that I stopped watching it about 20 minutes into the movie. This is perhaps the first time that I stopped a movie and don't even care about the rest of the plot. The movie is way too bizzare and depressing. I wouldn't call it a comedy. (By the way, I enjoy a variety of comedies ranging from The Royal Tenenbaums to Very Bad Things).

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    Emily S.

    Another favorite of mine from scorcese. People focus on Scorceses monumental works and pan his dark comedies. this is brilliantly dark, almost painful...to watch griffin dunne stumble around the city after hours makes you yearn for the nightlife. Rosanna Arquette is alluring... but those burns! Terri Garr probably gives the best performance as the desperate cocktail waitress. Anyway, definitely worth a rental!

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    PAUL S.

    I had seen this movie a few years ago. Now that it is available on DVD, I decided to take another look. This is a cleaver look into the life of a guy that is put through the paces of a Kafka novel. The catch is that, they make it into a comedy. Directed by Scorsese, this movie is the hilarious look into one night of madness. It's almost like a descent into hell and back. Can anyone say "Dante's Inferno"? I highly recommend this film; if you like the Seinfeld paranoid comedy. A classic piece by Scorsese.

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    Richard E.

    This movie is definately off-beat, which is why I like it. I've seen it a few times over the years and wouldn't rent it if it wasn't worth seeing again. It's unlike any other flick out there. It holds your interest because the character keeps finding himself in unusual situations meeting these weird people over the course of a night in the city, and you don't know where he'll end up next. Only the brilliance of Scorcese could pull off a flick this strange and make it work. It stars Griffin Dunn (the dude that gets eaten in American Werewolf In London).

    Yes   |   No

     
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