After Hours (1985)
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Reviews Counted: 37 Fresh: 34 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Synopsis: A surrealistic black comedy that plays on the paranoia and dread of everyday life in the Big Apple, Martin Scorsese's AFTER HOURS captures what is easily the worst night of one man's life. Computer programmer Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) makes a casual date with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette), a... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Linda Fiorentino
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Martin Scorsese’s take on NYC puts a hip spin on Joe Minion’s cleverly constructed nightmare.
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03/31/08
During the 80s there was a slew of yuppie revenge flicks where film-makers visited horrors on the heads of young urban professionals and this is probably the best of that mini-genre.
03/31/08
Anxiety-ridden picture would have been pretty funny if it didn't play like a confirmation of everyone's worst fears about contemporary urban life.
03/31/08
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Scorsese's orchestration of thematic development, narrative structure, and visual style is stunning in its detail and fullness; this 1985 feature reestablished him as one of the very few contemporary masters of filmmaking.
03/31/08
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A SoHo version of Ulysses? A male rendition of Alice in Wonderland? In Scorsese's brilliant noir comedy, a bored and repressed Everyman becomes an alien in his own town, subjected to one surreal nightmare after another, mostly by women.
05/30/06
I love it for its unrelenting inventiveness, its constant motion and its curmudgeonly glass-half-empty outlook.
09/20/04
After Hours is not, ultimately, a satisfying film, but it's often vigorously unsettling. In this season of homogenized pap, that should be read as praise.
08/30/04
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Scorsese's showmanship ends up enhancing the film’s dreamlike, surrealist sense of encroaching hysteria.
08/18/04
Darkly comedic and delightfully manic, After Hours is a fresh, funny look at one man's downward mental and emotional slide into an evening of unmitigated SoHo hell.
08/16/04
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