Bronson Pinchot, Catherine O'Hara, Cheech Marin

A slightly nerdy yuppie ends up going to SoHo one night for what he hopes will be a nice date, but ends up getting caught up in one weird turn of events after another with a menagerie of oddball chara...( read more  read more... )cters. Soon, he finds himself the accused suspect in a string of burglaries in the neighborhood, becomes the object of a witch hunt by a posse of SoHo denizens, and can't find a way to get back uptown to where he lives.

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R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Release Date: September 13, 1985

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  • September 7, 2009
    Although I love Goodfellas, Raging Bull and all of Scorsese's great films, After Hours has to be my favourite of his. A man get trapped on the wrong side of town and can't get home, a very simple premise but a brilliant starting point for what is a real bizarre cult film full of ...( read more)twists and hilarity. Highly recommended!
  • February 19, 2009
    A strange movie from Mr. Scorsese's collection. I loved the first 3/4, but kind of lost interest during the ending.

    Fun fact: remember the parents from Home Alone? (John Heard and Catherine O'Hara)....both appear in the movie as main characters...bizarre. I was half-expectin...( read more)g to see Culkin walking around as a fetus.
  • January 20, 2009
    This is almost forgettable as a Scorcese film for any number of reasons, as it's not a mob flick and doesn't star or co-star DeNiro or Keitel. It centers around a guy who runs out on his "date" and finds himself running into all kinds of problems just trying to get home. Every ro...( read more)adblock he runs into is somehow tied to somebody he met earlier or something he experienced earlier in the film. It's almost Lynchian in it's portrayal of nightlife and a man about to lose his mind, but it's tight-knit enough to be a P.T. Anderson movie as well. Griffin Dunne is so good in this, that's it's hard to believe he didn't amount to much else except Quiz Show and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Pretty enjoyable.
  • January 14, 2009
    Have you ever had a bad day. You know, a day that just moves from one catastrophe to another and it seems like no matter what you try fate has decided to defecate on you for a period of time. After Hours is a look at one poor processor's nine hours from hell.

    Paul Hackett (Griff...( read more)in Dunne) works in a typical, dull office in Manhattan living a life that real consists of get up, go to work, get up, go to work. It's a sad existence and he knows it. But one evening he meets Marcy (Rosanna Arquette) at a coffee shop and winds up calling her and setting up a date for late that night. Traveling to this date is actually his decent into the hell that he'll experience After Hours.

    The story has poor Paul going from one bad situation to another such as being hunted by what can be described as a very active neighborhood watch group that thinks he's the local burglar. After Hours builds on each catastrophe as the film rolls on. Paul isn't an idiot either. Quickly he wants to go home and get out of SoHo. Fate takes care of that, too. The subway fares went up at midnight. Poor Paul.

    Martin Scorsese delivers another classic New York film where the city is still a character unto itself. No other director can use a city so effectively as Scorsese. It's a silent entity watching Paul get pummeled by life in Griffin Dunne's great neurotic performance. After Hours isn't one of Scorsese's best films, but it's a look at how fate likes to screw with you.
  • April 7, 2008
    Sweet joyous Scorsese, this movie is delightful.

    A dark comic romp through the streets of 80's New York.

    Ballhaus's camera work is almost giddy with energy.
  • November 9, 2009
    Watched this again last night, and it holds up very well, even though NY is way different. Dunne is not the best actor for this part, but it works out ok. Still give it a solid 7 and highly recommend it.
  • October 11, 2009
    Such a dark, ironic and uncomfortably funny string of events plus a large helping of bizarre, paranoid and unpredictable characters have never before been forged into one story.
    The film follows Paul Hacket (Griffin Dunne) on a date from hell, where from square one it all goes ho...( read more)rribly wrong. As we move on, the mood winds up into a frenzied nightmare as this poor mans' plight goes from bad to worse. "All I want to do is go home" he says, running for his life from an angry mob.The story isn't complex, which you may think could bore, but the characters are so delightfully wacky that you can't help but be transfixed.
  • October 8, 2009
    I loved this, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't just because I've only slept three out of the last thirty or so hours ? but what a perfectly fitting movie to watch in such an insomniac state. Highly recommended.
  • August 30, 2009

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    After Hours, 1985. Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, and Terry Garr.

    Paul Hackett, (Griffin Dunne) an innocuous computer specialist goes on a quick blind date out of a sense of obligation one night after work. Along the way he encounters a lengthy parade of NYC extreme oddballs who all take some hand in misdirecting his evening. Everything goes horribly, horribly wrong. Heading toward Greenwich Village in a runaway taxi he loses all of his money. Every aspect of his trip is disturbing, every character is compelling, eccentric, and menacing. Every action he takes goes wrong or is poorly received.

    His attempts to resolve each emerging crisis simply lead him deeper into a convoluted maze of dilemmas. Each misadventure escalates and is more serious than the last until finally he is pursued through the streets of Soho ("South of Houston Street") by an angry mob who thinks he is a serial burglar. The weather is foul, he has no money and he can't get home, which is a good 10 miles uptown. Desperate and out of options, he encounters one final misanthropic oddball. Does she hold the key to his deliverance or to his doom? All Hackett has to say by this point is a plaintive, "I just want to get HOME!"

    A cast of well-established comedians effortlessly carry this dark, twisted satire of urban personalities and Murphy's Law
  • August 17, 2009
    Scorsese parvient sans difficulté à nous entraîner dans son cauchemar éveillé. Humour absurde et casting impeccable au rendez-vous.

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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

This is the work of a master filmmaker who controls his effects so skillfully that I was drained by this film. full review

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  • neffertitti29
    October 15, 2007
    Una película muy divertida
    me encanta el final

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