| | | When it's after midnight in New York City, you don't have to look for love, laughter and trouble. They'll all find you!
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital Mono, Audio Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Making Of Featurette, English, French, Spanish Subtitled
A bored, buttoned-up, button-down word processor sets out on a late-night date. He's about to become the punch line of a giant cosmic joke. Because different rules apply when it's After Hours
New York filmmaker Martin Scorsese takes a darkly comic look at his favorite city in this wild free-for-all that won him Best Director honors at the 1985 Independent Spirit Awards and the 1986 Cannes Films Festival. This tall tale of the ultimate bad night on the town offers juicy roles to Rosanna Arquette, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O'Hara, Cheech & Chong and others out hapless hero meets. Scorsese said Joseph Minion's tantalizing script was "like a Chinese puzzle." You'll howl as you put the pieces together.
Editor's Note
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 woman he meets in a coffee shop, unaware that it's about to unleash a nightmarish odyssey through the bowels of lower Manhattan. Upon arriving at Marcy's spacious Soho loft, Paul meets her unnerving artist roommate, Kiki (Linda Fiorentino), and the night takes a turn for the worse. Sensing the bad vibes that lie ahead, he immediately decides to return to his home on the Upper East Side. Unfortunately, this isn't such an easy task. In a seemingly endless series of strange and dangerous encounters, Paul begins to fear that he might never make it home again. Working from a clever script by Joseph Minion, Scorsese's film is both hysterical and frightening in its depiction of an insane, neurotic New York City. As the unfortunate hero, Dunne delivers his lines with a baffled incredulousness that also works as a voice for the sympathetic audience, who doesn't know whether to laugh or cringe when things really begin to heat up.
Plot Summary
Take an eventful one-night trip through the bizarre underworld of New York City as a regular guy (Griffin Dunne) is unwittingly thrust into a series of comic misadventures when he loses his cab fare late at night in Manhattan's Soho district. Joseph Minion's tightly constructed script, combined with Martin Scorsese's stylish direction, makes AFTER HOURS a highly entertaining ride that takes the "this night couldn't get any worse" concept to an entirely new level.
| Features | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital Mono | | Deleted Scenes | | Director Commentary | | Interactive Menus | | Making-Of Featurette | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Theatrical Trailer | | Widescreen Presentation | | Audio Commentary By Martin Scorsese, Producer Amy Robinson, Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and Editor Thelma Schoonmaker | | Filming For Your Life Making Of Featurette |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 8/17/2004 |
| Running Time: 97 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1985 | | Catalog ID: 19119 | | UPC: 00085391919209 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen/Standard 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Golden Globe (1986) | | | Griffen Dunne, Nominee, Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture-Comedy/Musical | |
Cannes Film Festival (1986) |  | Martin Scorsese, Winner, Best Director |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...An entertaining tease, with individually arresting sequences that are well acted....Ballhaus's camera takes on an aggressive, willful personality of its own..." 09/13/1985 p.C6Variety
"...A must for serious-minded filmgoers....Uniformly vibrant and interesting [actors]..." 09/11/1985 Los Angeles Times
"...Sweetly ominous....AFTER HOURS is dazzling movie making....The film is beautifully cast..." 09/27/1985 p.C1 USA Today
"Shot speedily at night in guerrilla filmmaking style....[A] wicked black comedy..." 08/27/2004 p.4E Sight and Sound
"[T]he closest thing to an Alberto Sordi comedy in recent American cinema..." 10/01/2004 p.75 Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
...a brilliant film, one of the year's best. It is also a most curious film... a film that is so ori - Roger Ebert
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