After Hours | | Cast : | Rosanna Arquette, Griffin Dunne | | Director : | | | Studio : | Warner Home Video | | Format : | Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Released Date : | September 13, 1985 | | DVD Released Date : | August 17, 2004 | | Language : | English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | November 03, 2005 | | Summary | One of Scorsese's most underrated classics! | Content
 | 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! |
| Rating | | | Date | May 11, 2005 | | Summary | excellent film but don't buy the DVD for the commentary | Content
| 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!
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| Rating | | | Date | March 21, 2005 | | Summary | glad its on dvd now! | Content
| 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. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 15, 2005 | | Summary | Whacky and fun | Content
| Looking for some fun, a computer programmer (Griffin Dunne) arranges a date with a girl (Rosanna Arquette) living in SoHo. Going to her place he loses the $20 bill he's carrying (his only money). This sets up an evening of nightmarish incidents for our hero, too many and too weird to relate here. Before it's over, however, he is wanted by a vigilante committee that thinks he's responsible for a number of break-ins in the neighborhood. In a sense it's a 1930s screwball comedy saturated with absolute horror: Dunne is actually caught in a trap in a completely alien world. This is a very well-done black comedy. |
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