After Hours

After Hours

By Martin Scorsese

  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 1985-09-13
  • Advisory Rating: R
  • Runtime: 1h 37min
  • Director: Martin Scorsese
  • Production Company: Double Play
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • iTunes Price: USD 9.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
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What if that date you thought would never end didn't? When an uptown New Yorker innocently meets a downtown girl, he's uncontrollably drawn into a vortex of wild, malevolent and paranoid adventures After Hours. Paul Hackett's (Griffin Dunne) terrible night happens in the SoHo area of downtown Manhattan when he goes to keep a date with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette). Nothing in his humdrum life as a word processor has prepared him for his surreal encounters with Marcy; her far-out artist roommate Kiki (Linda Fiorentino); cocktail waitress Julie (Teri Garr); ice cream vendor Gail (Catherine O'Hara); June (Verna Bloom), who lives in the basement of a nightclub; and Mark (Robert Plunket) who is ripe for his first gay experience. Now, Paul longs only for the safety of his upper-East Side apartment ... but will he ever make it home?

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  • Classic NYC Fiasco

    5
    By Ranitoba
    A data entry guy goes to SoHo for a date, triggering a carefully orchestrated symphony of disaster, with bad breaks that keep playing off each other until he's literally running for his life. One of Scorsese's best--a classic NYC movie, vintage 1980s, with a genuinely engrossing story that keeps upping the ante, and a ridiculous number of crazy-talented actors in the cast. (Catherine O'Hara alert!) do not sleep on this classic.

  • Literally no plot

    1
    By Easy_Churlish
    Not even interesting enough to be boring. Only good part was the scene with the guy from Second Sight.

  • After hours

    1
    By Hispano 73
    Awful

  • Hilariously dark

    5
    By JacobDude
    This is one of the few comedies I enjoy. I love Taxi Driver but this is probably my favorite Scorsese film. It’s an unusual film for Scorsese but it’s a gem!!!

  • After Hours

    5
    By Blandy1423
    I copied this on a VHS tape years ago. Can't wait to burn a playable HD DVD of it. This and Leaving Las Vegas are my top two movies. Dark humor at its best with wonderful acting by all the characters. I have probably watched this close to 10 times and still discover new nuances I hadn't caught previously.

  • Overrated

    2
    By Can't find a non-taken nickname
    It's not that funny. The bizarre set of coincidences eventually become way too contrived, and the ending was too easy. Most of the star actors had their talents wasted.

  • Good Movie

    4
    By Nurk Twin
    I saw this movie at the theater in 1985? I remember sitting there wishing the night and movie would never end.

  • One of the best movies ever made

    5
    By Cheaphotelsnow-twtr
    When I was a kid I saw this and it was so real to me but I didn't realize how real it was until I grew up and became a grown man. This is truly a perfect film. Worth every penny.

  • WONDERFUL!!!

    5
    By Fredo Viola
    Excellent, imaginative, lyrical and wildly cinematic black comedy from Martin Scorsese. It's sort of the "light" side of Taxi Driver. These two films, After Hours and Taxi Drivers are my favorite Scorsese films, followed closely by Goodfellas, Casino and The King of Comedy.

  • Best Scorsese movie ever?

    5
    By Hornonomous
    This movie is tied with The King of COmedy for the best Scorsese movie ever. He is best while being darkly funny. It frees him from his need to prove his masculinity in the darkness of gangster maudlinism. I wish he would just start making more and more comedies like this one. It's hilarious, twisted, wonderful and insane. Just how I like it.

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