After Hours

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After Hours

R

Released Oct 11, 1985

1h 37m

Comedy

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In a Manhattan cafe, word processor Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) meets and talks literature with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette). Later that night, Paul takes a cab to Marcy's downtown apartment. His $20 bill flying out the window during the ride portends the unexpected night he has. He cannot pay for the ride and finds himself in a series of awkward, surreal and life-threatening situations with a colorful cast of characters. He spends the rest of the night trying to return uptown.

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Critics Consensus

Bursting with frantic energy and tinged with black humor, After Hours is a masterful -- and often overlooked -- detour in Martin Scorsese's filmography.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

It’s a shaggy dog story leading to a punchline, of sorts, but one that feels woozy and illusory; it is not like a nightmare exactly, but a strange dream that’s difficult to shake on waking.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 20, 2024

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Budd Wilkins

Slant Magazine

Martin Scorsese’s After Hours mines urban anxiety to unsettling yet often hilarious effect.

Jul 20, 2023

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Christy Lemire

ChristyLemire.com

It might not make any sense. It might not even matter. But it's a blast while it lasts, and it brings the most perfect of endings along with the sunrise.

Rated: 3/4

Apr 9, 2018

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

...an exceedingly (and occasionally excessively) oddball comedy that is, for the most part, completely watchable from start to finish...

Rated: 3/4

Jun 23, 2024

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Jason Best

Movie Talk

After Hours is hallucinatory: lit with the clarity of a nightmare and bursting with such surreal details as a cashier who pirouettes as he takes your check and a crescent of mousetraps guarding the bed of a demented cocktail waitress.

Mar 24, 2024

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Erick Estrada

Cinegarage

Charming as well as exasperating; fun and tragic. [Full review in Spanish]

Mar 6, 2024

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A special kind of fever dream only Scorsese could properly deliver on. It's got it all, from start to finish, delivering intrigue, heart, and hilarity.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/25

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Christian K

Wow, definitely my favorite of the 70s/80s Scorsese I have seen. The energy, overlap, and performances all go together really well.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/25

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Hector I

A minor film in the master's filmography, but it's the film that kept him going in cinema, so there's that! We follow the story of Paul, a computer worker in 80s New York working for a large company not unlike the Coen brothers' The Big Jump. One night, while dining alone, he agrees to follow a pretty woman, and this is the start of a night like no other! The character is plunged into a world of nightmares in the Soho district, meeting some very strange characters with many existential problems.Faced with this, Paul the hero loses control, because instead of going home, he tries to cope with all the problems. The real fear, beyond the madness of this universe, is that nothing seems to work to get Paul out of his situation.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/11/25

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Farah R

I usually love Scorsese’s films but After Hours didn’t work for me. Neither the story nor the characters were good, which made the positive ratings and reviews all the more surprising.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/08/25

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Chris H

Enormous Scorsese guy, was excited to watch this one..was bummed out it didn’t resonate or live up to the hype, so I’m wondering why everyone swears by it?

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

12/26/24

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Tom T

Convince me that this isn’t some weird sort of story arc where Cathrine O’Hara meets John Heard and Home Alone begins. Dead Person ————>

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

12/18/24

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Synopsis

In a Manhattan cafe, word processor Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) meets and talks literature with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette). Later that night, Paul takes a cab to Marcy's downtown apartment. His $20 bill flying out the window during the ride portends the unexpected night he has. He cannot pay for the ride and finds himself in a series of awkward, surreal and life-threatening situations with a colorful cast of characters. He spends the rest of the night trying to return uptown.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Producer: Robert F. Colesberry, Griffin Dunne, Amy Robinson
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: The Geffen Company
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 11, 1985, Original
Release Date (Streaming): May 1, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA): $10.9M
Runtime: 1h 37m
Sound Mix: Mono

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