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Movie Reviews of After Hours
Movie Review: In my top 5 favorite films / Totally original script
Summary: 5 Stars
A funny black comedy set in Manhatten. I remeber as a kid watching this film on movie channel in the 80's and being mesmerized by the quirky characters. The main story is an average guy looking for romance in r Manhatten and for one night can't seem to make it back to his apartment. He goes out for a late night coffee at a diner meets Rosanna Arquette & from there encounters all these wacky characters in west village while trying to get back home. The script is amazing and totally original. This is character driven you don't forget the people in this movie Teri Garr as a crazy lonely monkey obsessed nuerotic waitress. Linda Fiorentino as an underground paper machute artist. John Heard as a paraniod bar owner. Griffin Dunne is a hilarious lead character who gets himself in all these oddball situations from one minute to the next. After refusing Teri Garr's advances he ends up having a mob after him. He ducks into an underground night club puts Peggy Lee's "Is that all there is" in the juke box and dances with a lonely lady who comes to his rescue at the end in a very bizarre way. One of my favorites films of all time. This is a must see original Scorsese movie one can't beat the surreal originality of this script.Movie Review: They Only Come Out At Night...
Summary: 5 Stars
AFTER HOURS is one of those wonderfully weird movies that I can watch again and again. I have loved Martin Scorsese ever since BOXCAR BERTHA, and consider him to be a bloody genius. With HOURS, he takes us on a late-night tour of a nightmare NYC, a plunge into madness w/ hilarious twists and memorably odd characters. Griffin Dunne (An American Werewolf In London) plays a man trapped in a dull, seemingly pointless job who leaves work one evening, unaware that fate is about to toss him headlong into a bizarre, exhileratingly dangerous underworld. A world populated w/ neurotics, psychotics, thieves, vigilante mobs, and -gulp!- artists! Played to the hilt by the likes of Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction), Teri Garr (Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Young Frankenstein), John Heard (CHUD), Verna Bloom (Animal House), and Cheech and Chong, these night-people are never boring. If you enjoy semi-dark, surreal stuff like THE OUT OF TOWNERS (w/ Jack Lemon), THE TRIAL (w/ Anthony Perkins), or even VAMP (w/ Grace Jones), then AFTER HOURS will be a thrill...Movie Review: Warped Wizard of Oz!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Not only is "After Hours" my favorite Scorsese film, but it's also the most twisted riff on "The Wizard of Oz" ever filmed. A nebbishy office worker hits on a rather wild-looking gal in a coffee shop one night. She gives him her phone number and invites him to come up and see her some time. Skittish at first, boredom overcomes his objections, and he takes her up on it. Then the fun begins...every awful thing that could happen to this guy (and then some!) does. Eventually, like Dorothy, all he really wants to do is escape from this nightmare and go home, but fate conspires against him there, too. This is an extremely dark comedy, not for everyone, but if you're in the right mood, you'll love it. Griffin Dunne has never been funnier, or Scorsese's direction more frantically energetic. "After Hours" also features interesting cameos by Cheech and Chong, Catharine O'Hara, Linda Fiorentino, Terri Garr, and John Heard. Check it out!Movie Review: Scorsese's Second Foray Into Dark Comedy Is One of His Best
Summary: 5 Stars
After Hours is the story of a hard working man's late night adventures on a date.
Martin Scorsese directed this beautiful movie that includes Griffin Dunne, Rossana Arquette, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O'Hara, and Cheech and Chong.
This is one of Martin Scorsese's best movies. It is hilarious, well paced, perfectly acted and directed, and beautiful.
The DVD features a scene specific commentary from Scorsese, Dunne, Producer Amy Robinson, Cinematographer Michael Balhaus, and Editor Thelma Schoonmaker., it also includes a delghtful "Making Of" featurette, and few deleted scenes.
All in all, a hilarious release from Martin Scorseses that doesn't get the due it deserves. It is definitely highly recomended.
Highly recommended*
*Although highly recommended for all watchers, this is a definite must have for Scorsese dans, and those of dark comedies.
Movie Review: The Empire 5 Star 500 - #5
Summary: 5 Stars
When was the last time you got lost? Was it on purpose? Things that go bump in the night. This is not a "film", in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty ... what you will. Something like that. So you think Henry Miller is strange? Well he is probably just still trying to get discovered. By the way you got any cream cheese bagel plaster of paris paper weights? If so you better get em! Cuz as we sit here chatting there are important papers flying rampant around my apartment because I don't have anything to hold them down with! This movie is a very clever gem. If you like to explore the city very late at night this movie is most definitely made for you. The reason why? Because "Different rules apply when it gets this late. It's like...the After Hours."