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After Hours (1985)

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his tale from Director Martin Scorsese, is a night in the life of Paul Hackett (GRIFFIN DUNNE).

One evening, in a coffee shop, he makes conversation over the book 'Tropic of Cancer' with the unusual but attractive Marcy (ROSANNA ARQUETTE). He gets her telephone number. He calls her, and ventures out in New York in his white suit to visit her - after hours.

This the start of the nightmare series of frustrating mishaps that prevent him from returning home...

In the young woman's apartment he meets Kiki (LINDA FIORENTINO) who makes cream-cheese bagel paperweight sculptures and talks in a veiled way about being burned. Later, Paul fails in getting close to Marcy, probably after she tells him about her former lover who was so obsessed by "The Wizard of Oz" that he always shouted 'Surrender Dorothy' when making love.

As the night progresses, Paul meets a local Bartender (JOHN HEARD) who drags him unwittingly into being chased by a street mob that think he is a thief.

Thanks to the escalating subway fares, the suicide of Marcy, the lonely waitress Julie (TERI GARR) and the gangs of people searching the streets for him, we begin to form a tenuous but pertinent connection between all of the dark and mysterious events.

Will the poor guy ever get home?

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I've always found that I am uncertain quite how to respond to many of the scenes, anyone got any advice? As someone who gets very engaged by Urban movies, I find After Hours to be another New York Scorsese masterpiece. The best of the Urban nightmare movies. Surreal, frustrating and hilarious.


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Joe Minion's script, first called "Lies" and later "A Night in SoHo", was originally turned in for an 'A' grade in a Columbia University film class!


Griffin Dunne is the brother of Dominique Dunne who played the older sister "Dana" in Poltergeist. Poltergeist was released in June of 1982. Unfortunately, she was killed by her ex boyfriend John Thomas Sweeney in November 1982 just weeks before her 23rd birthday. :( -Thanks to jdocster04

The conversation between Paul and the bouncer at Club Berlin is mostly from Franz Kafka's "Before The Law."

Bronson Pinchot makes a brief cameo early in the movie as a new worker at Pauls office, proving that you couldn't make a great movie in 1983/1984 without having Bronson Pinchot in it (see "Beverly Hills Cop", "Risky Business" for further clarification).

Cheech Marin of "Cheech and Chong" fame plays the small role of 'Neil the burglar' who loses his rightfully paid-for sculpture to Paul.

Watch for a reference to another of Dunne's roles in "American Werewolf in London" whilst at the subway station.

Director Martin Scorsese makes a brief cameo shining a spotlight from a platform in the club.

The closing credits are displayed over a moving shot of Paul's office, during which more and more employees show up for work. When the camera passes Paul's desk again, he has disappeared.

When Paul finally gets in to the club to meet with Kiki, the band that is playing when Paul is forced into getting a mohawk is 'The Bad Brains' with a song called 'Pay to Cum'.

Another treat is Kiki's leather-clad boyfriend Horst who is none other than star of stage and screen Will Patton. His credits include "Romeo is Bleeding" and "No Way Out." -Thanks to Todd B

Robin Johnson, the star of 1980 cult movie "Times Square", has a walk-on part as a punk in this film. From the amazing 'rockstar', Nikki, in the former to a nameless girl in this, then she pretty much faded away. -Thanks to Rowena Annwen

Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette can be seen again in "The Big Blue" (1988) (Le Grand bleu). Griffin Dunne has just a small role. -Thanks to Spanish80

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Martin Scorsese allegedly mainly did this movie to help finance "Last Temptation of Christ", his dream project that he had been peddling around Hollywood for years (and it eventually did get made in 1988). -Thanks to Kenneth Sutton

Griffin Dunne was asked by Scorsese to refrain from sleep and sex while filming in order to heighten his paranoia in the later scenes. -Thanks to MKane Jeeves

Paul knows the bartender's name is Tom, but how? During their entire conversation at the bar, when they first meet, they never exchange names.

The scene when Horst first appears and tells Paul he was rude and lacked discipline, Kiki says "well it's not too late to finish what you've started". But as you hear her say "well", her mouth is clearly closed as she's not speaking. -Thanks to Jae

When Marci returns to her room after her shower she admonishes Paul for not having stayed on the bed as per her instructions; Paul then apologizes in response - despite the fact that Marci had never instructed him to stay on the bed nor anywhere else for that matter. -Thanks to Wmgh

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Featured Movie Location: The Terminal Bar
Wanna see the real life filming location used for The Terminal Bar in the movie? These scenes were actually shot at The Emerald Pub, located in New York, New York. [New! Show Google Map]


Many real-life locations in New York's SoHo district were used. The stainless steel diner where Hackett and Marcy first meet is not the "Moondance Diner" at 80 Sixth Avenue as often reported. The diner featured in the film, (for the exterior dolly tracking shot just before Paul and Marcy enter a diner and he asks her about Frank) was the River Diner on 11th Avenue and 37th Street in Manhattan. As for the scene in the beginning of the film where they meet for the first time I'm at a loss. The shape of the room, windows, entrance and everything else looks nothing like the interior of the Moondance, (it was a favorite and sorely missed spot of mine). Even though there was a remodeling, most likely some time after 1985, the frame of the building still would not be able to match the cafe or diner interior in the beginning of the film. Just this past summer the Moondance got replaced by a glass and steel hotel in Soho. The River Diner was gone by March of 2004 and probably faced the same fate. [Thanks to Bruce]

Kiki Bridges' apartment is at 28 Howard Street and "The Terminal Bar" is really The Emerald Pub at 308 Spring Street. Opposite is Barmaid Teri Garr's apartment.

The metro station "where the prices just went up" is Spring Street.

Hackett's office building is the Metropolitan Life Tower, Madison Avenue near Madison Square Park.

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Teri Garr's character plays a record of The Monkees performing "Last Train To Clarksville". A subtle homage, perhaps? Some of Garr's first acting work was with The Monkees. She played a character named Testy True in the Pre-Fab Four's 1968 everything-but-the-kitchen-sink movie "Head". -Thanks to John Edward Kilduff

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After Hours Movie Details
Year:
1985
Studio:
Warner Bros.
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Starring:
Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Teri Garr, John Heard, Cheech Marin, Bronson Pinchot, Linda Fiorentino
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