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ACTOR
Griffin DunneRosanna ArquetteVerna BloomTommy Chong
DIRECTOR
Martin Scorsese
SYNOPSICS
After Hours (1985) is a English movie. Martin Scorsese has directed this movie. Griffin Dunne,Rosanna Arquette,Verna Bloom,Tommy Chong are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1985. After Hours (1985) is considered one of the best Comedy,Crime,Drama,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
A meek word processor in New York impulsively travels downtown to Soho for date with an attractive, but apparently disturbed young woman, and finds himself trapped in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.
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After Hours (1985) Reviews
Scorcese's most underrated.
Out of all the Scorsese films - I would have to admit this ranks in the top five. After Hours draws you into it's dark and surreal world with fantastical wonder. The characters are all interesting, the acting superb - especially Griffin Dunne - and the pacing is great. It was made in 1985, and I can already see the techniques Scorsese used in Goodfellas - and the quick editing. It is directed and edited really well. So if you were a fan of Scorsese's frantic camera work in Goodfellas and Casino, this film is for you. It really does put you on edge - as a viewer, you really want Dunne's character to get back home - but everything possible that could happen to him - happens. This is not just a evocation of soHo in the early 80's - it is a deeply black comedy. All the rules go out the window for Dunne's character, because after all it is after hours. Scorsese really is the best living director at the moment - so do yourself a favour and watch this movie - it's fantastic.
One of Scorsese's most underrated films
This wasn't a big hit when it came out, but it should have been. Martin Scorsese is a master of creating atmosphere and exploring a specific setting, and he has proved that in movies like Taxi Driver and Gangs of New York. In this film he brings the SoHo of the early to mid 1980s to life in brilliant and surreal fashion. Griffin Dunne is a great Every Man character. You like him from the very first scene and you follow his adventures with excitement and dread. The tension in this film is also intense, and that is amazing for a light hearted comedy. I am always surprised to hear that people have not seen this movie, or that people don't like this movie. I urge all Scorsese fans to see it. It's one of his best, even though many critics did not like it when it came out. It's a cult hit, but it deserves to be more than that too. It's a masterpiece.
Should be criterion
One of my tops. Classic NYC and holds up. The story is so something I'll never let go. Under rated.
New York Nightmare
'After Hours' is a really dark, nightmarish comedy and is one of Martin Scorsese's most enjoyable films. Griffin Dunne is perfection as the computer operator who meets lovely but ditsy Rosanna Arquette in a diner and arranges to meet her late one night. His journey to downtown New York goes hideously wrong when he loses his taxi fare and spends the rest of the evening trying to get home. Along the way we meet feisty Linda Fiorentino, whimsical Verna Bloom, Gorgeous but hysterical Teri Garr and Dusty Springfield look alike Catherine O'Hara. We also get to witness suicide, murder, robbery and vigilante mobs in this tale of big city madness. The camera-work is stupendous and features every trick in the book. There is much to admire in this film and thankfully it now has a DVD release with a commentary by the Director and star.
An Existential Nightmare
I was living in Los Angeles in the golden '80s, the last great age of American films I think. I watched the video of 'After Hours' so many times it wore out and am happy it is now available on DVD. But I hesitate to buy said DVD. Why? This film is extremely disturbing, and not really a comedy but a gruesome and pitch black snapshot of NYC culture that cuts very close to the bone for those of us who knew the nightlife of Sunset Boulevard on the other side of the country. The similarities between NYC and LA at that time were legion, the only difference being the cavernous, sinister streets of NY were not lined with palm trees. David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive' best captures that aspect of danger and tragedy on the west coast that Scorsese has captured on the eastern seaboard. Griffin Dunne has to be the most under-rated American comedian and it is a very good thing his gifts were captured so beautifully in 'After Hours'. His character seems to be the only sane person in Manhattan. He is mostly surrounded a bevy of beautiful and hopelessly neurotic and ruthless women. Rosanna Arquette, a strange actress all on her own, is cast in a very weird part in this film. Nothing she does makes sense which makes her behavior entirely plausible within the circumstances of her environment. Kafka, the author Dunne's character is reading, sets the tone for this dark and dangerous story. Arquette is perfect as the doomed suicide, a sort of modern grand guignol character. She is also tremendously annoying and it's a relief when her whining person is dispatched in the creepy loft she inhabits with Linda Fiorentino. There is a fine performance from Linda Fiorentino (whatever happened to her?), as an s/m style dominatrix/artist in SoHo who leads Paul (Dunne) a merry dance through the darkest bowels of the nightclub scene during the "punk" hey-day. Terri Garr, a seemingly sweet and "normal" city girl, a blonde, all-American girl living in a sickeningly sweet and Dada-esquire little apartment. She is the most horrifying of all the women Paul encounters. She struck me as being a potential murderess should Paul have decided to linger longer with her. It was a great relief when he escaped her burgeoning hysteria and ran back into the streets. Verna Bloom's motherly artist caps off Paul's horrible journey by encasing him in plaster of Paris and leaving him in a basement flat fit for Frankenstein's monster. John Heard is entirely weird and menacing as a soft-spoken but highly-strung bartender, another mass-murderer waiting to blossom looms in the background of his personality. Scorsese has zeroed in on the familiar things in our lives in a most alarming manner. Cheap bathrooms in cheaply renovated lofts and cramped little apartments. The god- awfulness of the lives of these people is deeply disturbing, and now that I am19 years older than when I first watched this film so avidly, I am not so sure I want to dive back into that vortex of neurasthenia and darkness again. But I probably will. One of Scorsese's best and definitely his most under-rated film. Watch at your own risk.