After Hours

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After Hours

R

1985

1h 37m

Comedy

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In a Manhattan café, 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

03/20/2024

4/5

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.

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Budd Wilkins

Slant Magazine

07/20/2023

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

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Christy Lemire

ChristyLemire.com

04/09/2018

3/4

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.

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Julian Singleton

Cinapse

07/11/2025

What truly sets After Hours apart in Scorsese’s filmography is how much the film is defined by its whimsically grim sense of humor.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

06/23/2024

3/4

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

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Jason Best

Movie Talk

03/24/2024

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.

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Josh G

@Parsifal83 2d

Scorsese turns one disastrous night into an irresistibly escalating chain reaction of absurdity and anxiety. The film's manic energy never lets up, creating a darkly comic odyssey that's as meticulously crafted as it is wildly entertaining.

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Jason H

@RT50328122 Jun 7

Wonderfully bizarre. It couldn't be made today; cellphones and debit cards have made almost everything that happens in this movie easy to resolve.

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ste F

@stevenfalk May 11

After Hours is a tiny gem. Low budget, one single crazy night, and somehow Griffin Dunne just keeps getting dragged into worse and worse situations like it’s his full-time job. Scorsese is ridiculously precise with the details too — the dollar flying out of the car, the keys falling, all those little things that make the whole nightmare feel even funnier and more alive. It’s basically an endless loop that sends the poor guy right back to square one, which honestly feels like a pretty solid metaphor for life. Also, go watch it, because it’s Scorsese’s only short film. Haha.

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Johnzo F

@Johnzo Mar 22

I watched "After Hours" recently to see the late and great Catherine O’Hara and she definitely did not disappoint as she was the brightest part in the entire movie. The mid eighties look of total despair and grime in New York was illustrated throughout to often surreal extremes. Griffin Dunne didn’t seem to pull off the comedy intended as the part was written to be annoying more than humorous. Waiting to see Ms O’Hara was the only thing that kept me watching until the end.

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Bilbo B.

@bagginsidedbilbo Mar 15

You lack discipline

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Michael O.

@moviemanmike33 Mar 10

I’m not even really sure what I just watched. I didn’t hate it but I truly don’t understand what the purpose of the movie was. Basically anything you do or any curiousity you have will have consequences but you still have to get up and do the same BS grind all over again every day? Idk I want to gemive 2.5 stars but I can’t and it’s Marty so I’ll round up to 3. Weird weird flick.

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Synopsis

In a Manhattan café, 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