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After Hours Details

1985 Certificate 15
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  • 70
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An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop. Read more

Starring Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Linda Fiorentino, Verna Bloom
Director Martin Scorsese
Genres Comedy, Drama

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After Hours

An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

Starring Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Linda Fiorentino, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Teri Garr
Director Martin Scorsese
Studio WARNER HOME DVD
Run time DVD: 1 hr 33 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Comedy, Drama
Language DVD: English
Hearing-impaired English
Released DVD: 25 Oct 2004
Production year: 1985
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (3) of After Hours

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Back at his home studio, MGM, after his Oscar-winning success in It Happened One Night, Clark Gable was cast as another newspaper man who, with the aid of his glamorous society-girl-cum-reporter (Constance Bennett), solves a murder. A solidly entertaining example of the then fashionable newsroom genre, when papers were papers and reporters played detective, it was written by Herman J Manckiewicz (later to script Citizen Kane with Orson Welles) and directed by one of the studio's slickest craftsmen, Robert Z Leonard. The result is a sparky, witty and fast-moving comedy melodrama.

    • Radio Times
  • 2 stars out of 4

    An unsettling kind of black comedy with moments of malaise: nobody denies its touches of brilliance, but few people want to see it again.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 21 out of 21 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    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?!

      • A customer from Leicester
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars [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.

      • Charles Brickley from Andover, Hampshire England
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