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This well-regarded cult film is a tense Kafka-esque tale concerning what happens to a likable computer guy who is in the wrong place at the wrong time in the city that never sleeps--New York. This is a New York infested with bizarre characters vividly brought to life by a once-in-a-lifetime cast. Griffin Dunne's wonderfully controlled comic performance as Paul Hackett is the glue that holds this increasingly surreal film together. Scorsese utilizes a full array of independent and underground film techniques, including special film speed manipulations, angles, and edits, deftly capturing the strange rhythms of an after-hours New York City. Many will find the jokes clever, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. Some, however, will find the film an excruciating series of staged circumstances setting up a sadistically cruel dark nightmare of horrors. And there are a few lines of dialogue so poorly written they remind you how unbelievable the thin story really is. But forgive the film these few lapses--overall it's a wild, surreal ride. The most offbeat character is the beehive-sporting, Monkee-obsessed neurotic played to perfection by Teri Garr. And the moment when Griffin Dunne uses his last quarter to play Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is" and dances with Verna Bloom while an angry mob searches SoHo for him is an inspired bit of lunacy. --Christopher J. Jarmick
Paul Hackett has a very strange night when he decides to go out on a date with a woman he just met at a coffee shop. She invites him into her home, and unfortunately, their date ends too soon when he is asked to leave. After he leaves, he realizes that he's in a surrounding that he's unfamiliar with, and since he lost his last $20, he's trapped! His quest to get home quickly turns into a nightmare, as he encounters one mishap after another.
Recognized by film buffs as a cult classic "late night" comedy, After Hours features excellent direction by Martin Scorsese, and a great performance from the underrated Griffin Dunne (who you'll recognize from "An American Werewolf in London", "My Girl", and most recently "Stuck on You"). Recommended!
excellent film but don't buy the DVD for the commentary
This is an excellent film and one my all time favs. If you like offbeat dark comedies a la Coen brothers, you will love this movie. Griffin Dunne is one my favourite actors, although he can overact at times. He is plays the frantic all around "nice guy" really well in this film. He is clearly out of his element in the wacky artsy Soho area of New York. Nobody makes any sense, especially the women, who are all lunatics. Either Scorcese or Minion is making a statement about the tendency of women to be eratic and overly emotional, I'm not sure. Scorcese comments that he hated living in downtown New York cause he just wanted "go into a building and press a button for an elevator".
Which brings me to the commentary. If you are thinking of getting this (or renting it) for the commentary, save your money, the commentary is horrible and consists mostly of the cinematographer, who I'm sure is a nice guy but he bored me silly, not enough Dunne of Scorcese, we just get endless minutes of this yutz droning on about different shots in excrutiating detail. Anyway, I'll save you trouble, basically the jist of the commentary was that Scorcese was making Last Temptation of Christ and the project got dumped, so he chose this movie because of the tight schedule. They shot the film very quickly and it comes through because there is definitely a sense of urgency that permeates it.
The end product is one of Scorcese's greatest and it is actually multi layered, with many allusions to the Wizard of Oz (trying to get home) and flames/fire (being trapped in Hell). The way all the plot elements tie together is quite clever, something you don't see in todays films, it's all paint by numbers.
Anyway, if you liked this film, check out "Search and Destroy" also with Dunne being even more manic and over the top. It also has Dennis Hopper, John Turturo and Christopher Walken. A must see!
glad its on dvd now!
Good movie and rich on cinema I'm glad it finally came out on DVD. What the hell were they waiting for? anyways this film is fun griffin dunne is great I love him I'm going out and buy me my copy.
Martin Scorsese's brutal black-and-white biography of self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta was chosen as the best film of the 1980s in a major critics' poll at the end of the decade, and it's a knockout piece of filmmaking. Robert De Niro plays LaMotta (famously putting on 50 pounds for the later scenes), a man tormented by demons he doesn't understand and prone to uncontrollably violent temper tantrums and fits of irrational jealousy. He marries a striking young blond (Cathy Moriarty), his sexual ideal, and then terrorizes her with never-ending accusations of infidelity. Jake is as frightening as he is pathetic, unable to control or comprehend the baser instincts that periodically, and without warning, turn him into the rampaging beast of the title. But as Roman Catholic Scorsese sees... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robert De Niro - Cathy Moriarty - Joe Pesci Director(s): Martin Scorsese DVD Release Date: Released the 08 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Something like a perfect artistic union is achieved in the major components of Paris, Texas: the twang of Ry Cooder's guitar, the lonely light of Robbie Muller's camera, the craggy landscape of Harry Dean Stanton's face. In his greatest role, longtime character actor Stanton plays a man brought back to his old life after wandering in the desert (or somewhere) for four years. He has a 7-year-old son to get to know, and his wife has gone missing. The material is much in the wanderlust spirit of director Wim Wenders, working from a script by Sam Shepard and L.M. Kit Carson. If the long climactic conversation between Stanton and Nastassja Kinski renders the movie uneven and slightly inscrutable, it's hard to think of a more fitting ending--and besides, the achingly empty American... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Harry Dean Stanton - Nastassja Kinski - Dean Stockwell Director(s): Wim Wenders DVD Release Date: Released the 14 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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After Martin Scorsese went to Hollywood in 1972 to direct the low-budget Boxcar Bertha for B-movie mogul Roger Corman, the young director showed the film to maverick director John Cassavetes and got an instant earful of urgent advice. "It's crap," said Cassavetes in no uncertain terms, "now go out and make something that comes from your heart." Scorsese took the advice and focused his energy on Mean Streets, a riveting contemporary film about low-life gangsters in New York's Little Italy that critic Pauline Kael would later call "a true original, and a triumph of personal filmmaking." Starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel in roles that announced their talent to the world, it set the stage for Scorsese's emergence as one of the greatest American filmmakers. Introducing... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robert De Niro - Harvey Keitel Director(s): Martin Scorsese DVD Release Date: Released the 17 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Having scored a critical triumph with Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese accepted Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as his first big-studio assignment, proving his versatility and further advancing his promising career. Hot off The Exorcist with her choice of projects at Warner Brothers, Ellen Burstyn sought a hot young talent (Scorsese was recommended by Francis Coppola) to direct Robert Getchell's fine, sensitive screenplay about Alice Wyatt, a newly-widowed 35-year-old lounge singer with a bratty 12-year-old son (Alfred Lutter) and a very uncertain future. Her pursuit of broken dreams lands her a waitressing job in an Arizona diner, where she befriends foul-mouthed Flo (Diane Ladd) and meets and falls in love with a divorced farmer (Kris Kristofferson). With absolute... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ellen Burstyn - Kris Kristofferson Director(s): Martin Scorsese DVD Release Date: Released the 17 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Jonathan Demme's sexy 1986 road comedy, a story about the liberation of a stuffed-shirt businessman (Jeff Daniels) by a free-spirited punkette (Melanie Griffith), looks better and better as the years go by. By dressing Griffith in a bowl-cut black wig and giving her character the resonant nickname Lulu, Demme establishes a clear link with G.W. Pabst's 1928 Louise Brooks melodrama Pandora's Box--except that in this case the influence of a sexual free spirit is not seen as malign or corrupting. The turning point comes when the girl's hard-edged manner is discarded along with the wig and the nickname: Lulu turns into Audrey, a touchingly vulnerable, fluffy blonde. Ray Liotta, making his first big splash as Audrey's ex-con ex-husband, a hot-wired collection of homicidal tics,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jeff Daniels - Melanie Griffith Director(s): Jonathan Demme DVD Release Date: Released the 05 June 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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