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After Hours
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
Release : | 1985 |
Rating : | 7.6 |
Studio : | Warner Bros. Pictures, Geffen Pictures, Double Play, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Assistant Art Director, |
Cast : | Griffin Dunne Rosanna Arquette Linda Fiorentino Teri Garr John Heard |
Genre : | Drama Comedy Thriller |
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Highly Overrated But Still Good
In truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
A great film, Scorcese is for me the best director of all time but we never hear of this film... We should because it's a film that even if your not a Scorcese fan, you would love it. It's entertaining all along.
This movie.. This movie has ONE good line with proper comedic timing. It is not at the end of the movie, is somewhere in between, and it works because of the entirety of the film building towards it.And then.. that's it. It's not really interesting (be it visually, sets, content-wise or even the dialogue). None of the characters are particularly appealing. They don't even get enough time to be developed in any sort of way. But considering this is more like a crazy fever-dream, it is somewhat acceptable.. I guess. I'm sure this would be great as a film-student project, but otherwise, it isn't a particularly entertaining movie.I give it 3 stars, because x3 is the speed at which I would recommend anyone watch this.
After Hours is a terrific film, however it is a bit crazy just for the sake of it.Griffin Dunne is a very amusing comical lead and I especially liked Julie. The only let down for me is Rosanna Arquette and Linda Fiorentino's characters, they are just a bit too nuts and unappealing. Loved the ending, but I would of preferred if it had stopped with Paul in the plaster.
Like it or not. This film does one thing really well. It does really, really well at catching your attention and never letting go of it. You can regard it as one giant attention-catching moment that is the whole film in its entirety, or a series of attention-catching spurts that somehow don't get formulaic and redundant.The events happening aren't even that interesting or brilliant, but they do so well at keeping you, the viewer, hooked and curious what happens next. At very, very least, even stripped of its symbols and what not, in its most plain viewing, this film must be considered an entertaining watch.Not being a Scorsese fan at all myself, the directing is really good. It conveys that sense of a Kafkaesque-nightmarish sort of feel and does really well at being straight to the point, and not dwelling too long on its weirdness. It's strange, original, but efficient. It is not self-indulgent or edgy like such films always are.It's also just the right length. The story of a man who can never get home, in a familiar but equally surrealistic environment, told in just the right amount of time, with just the right start and ending to it. Doesn't get cute with itself.Also, very good job from lead actor Griffin Dunne.Really well done. 8/10.