After Hours Details

Wonderful

After Hours is terrific! I watched the movie two hours ago and I'm still resisting the urge to laugh out loud. It's simply impossible to do it justice in a review, except to say that this movie truly sings like no other movie I've ever seen. The way the plot unfolds is sheer genius. The cast is perfect, the characters are perfect, everything is perfect! It's profoundly funny. And Griffin Dunne's depiction of a buttoned-down guy on the brink of insanity is stupendously enthralling. What are you waiting for?!

[Highly rated reviewer]

Never mess about on a first date!!

This was the film which, according to Martin Scorsese, saved his self respect and his reputation as a director.

It is the story of a lonely and jaded word processor Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) who meets the beautiful but eccentric Marcy Franklin (Rosanna Arquette) in a Diner.

Marcy tells Paul about her artistic friend Kiki (Linda Fiorentino) who sculptures cheese bagels in plaster and gives him her telephone number.

Overcome by curiosity Paul rings Kiki, who just happens to share with Marcy and he gets invited to their apartment in Soho (New York), thus starting a manic and tragic chain of events.

Yes it is weird; the cast includes Catherine O'Hara, who had been mainly on TV until then; the excellent Teri Garr (Dustin's girlfriend in Tootsie); Nasty Boy: Will Patton and John Heard (O'Hara's husband in Home Alone).

I will not spoil the plot, as is essential that Hackett's nightmare evening out unravels at its own pace and it has more twists than a ride at Alton Towers.

This is more of a cerebral horror film in which the central character suffers a series of plausible but painful experiences throughout the longest night of his life.

Well worth the money, I enjoyed the tale, I do not have to store the DVD on the shelf and it represents an important episode in Scorsese's career as a director.