F-0160

Title:

After Hours
A Night in SoHo (USA, working title)
Lies (USA, original script title)

Category:

S

Produced:

1985

Country:

USA

Released:

Film: Sep 1985 (USA)
DVD: Aug 2004 (5-DVD)
Video Download: Jul 2007

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Writer:

Joseph Minion

Actors:

Griffin Dunne (Paul Hackett); Rosanna Arquette (Marcy Franklin); Verna Bloom (June); Tommy Chong (Pepe - as Thomas Chong); Linda Fiorentino (Kiki Bridges); Teri Garr (Julie); John Heard (Thomas 'Tom' Schorr); Cheech Marin (Neil); Catherine O'Hara (Gail); Dick Miller (Diner Waiter - Pete); Will Patton (Horst); Robert Plunket (Street Pickup); Bronson Pinchot (Lloyd); Rocco Sisto (Coffee Shop Cashier); Larry Block (Taxi Driver)

Description:

A meek word processor impulsively travels to Manhattan's Soho District to date an attractive but apparently disturbed young woman and finds himself trapped there in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances. (Gabe Taverney)

Paul meets Marcy at a coffee shop after work, and gets her phone number. He calls her, she asks him to come over, and things take a turn for the bizarre. Paul spends the rest of the night trying to get home, dealing with angry cabbies, dead women (and their bartender husbands), clumsy catburglars, quirky sculptresses, unstable waitresses, condescending bouncers, and irate mobs led by ice cream truck drivers along the way. (Andy Peters)

A New York office worker has "a very strange night" when he ventures for a late night date with a woman he just meets, which turns into waking nightmare when one mishap after another strands him in a hostile neighborhood in his quest to return home before morning. (Anonymous)

Paul Hacketts embarks on a trip to SoHo in hopes of scoring with a pretty women he just met, but when his money flies out the window he is stuck in SoHo. The movie details his experiences that night with a wide array of criminals, kooks, psychotics, sadomasochists, punks, and an angry mob trying to kill him. Strangely, the seemingly disconnected events are interwoven in unusual and unexpected ways. (Andrew Hyatt)

Conjure up an urban world where apparently friendly young ladies all turn out to be somewhere between odd and crazy. Then imagine you're up here to see one such girl and your last bill has flown out of the cab window on the way. Then pretend your date has committed suicide, you've somehow got branded as a serial robber, and another girl is after you with her ice cream van. You could well be Paul Hackett stranded in New York's SoHo in the early hours miles away from your uptown word processing job. You've got some change but since the subway fares went up at midnight, not enough to get back. Who do you call? Definitely not the police. (Jeremy Perkins)

Language:

English

TT:

97 min / 556 min (5-DVD)

Bach's Music:

Air (Mvt. 2) & Gavotte (Mvt. 3) from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068

Format:

Film: Color
DVD: (5-DVD Box set, Anamorphic, Surround Sound, Widescreen, Collector's Edition, Color, NTSC, Region 1)

Company:

Film: Double Play
DVD: Warner Home Video
Video Download:: Warner Bros.

Comments:

5-DVD Set includes: Martin Scorsese Collection (After Hours/Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore/Goodfellas/Mean Streets/Who's That Knocking At My Door?)

Watch selections:

Buy movie at:

DVD: Amazon.com [5]
Video Download: Amazon.com | Amazon.com

Source/Links: IMDB
Contributor: Aryeh Oron (November 2007)