This is my favourite of all Martin Scorsese films. I didn't say it was his best, but for my time and money, I'd rather watch "After Hours" once a month for the rest of my life than anything else he's ever directed.
Unlike "Taxi Driver", the vehicle for hire here inspires a ridiculous, yet strangely believable idiotic odyssey through darkest Manhattan, as Griffin Dunne (never better) is simply looking for a nice woman to spend a few hours with and ends up fighting for his damn fool life instead. His Paul can't get a break until art intervenes (suggested by the late, great Michael Powell), bringing this hilarious endurance test back to square one again.
If you've never watched this, you're in for a treat. Linda Fiorentino and Rosanna Arquette (each at her sexiest) are terrific in the night and day loft mate roles. Character specialists Will Patton and John Heard get the best parts of their early careers. And the disc has one of the most rewarding and complementary to it's subject special features ever, definitely worth giving nineteen minutes of your time to. The pre-Disneyfied New York on display is both charming and deadly.
Unlike "Taxi Driver", the vehicle for hire here inspires a ridiculous, yet strangely believable idiotic odyssey through darkest Manhattan, as Griffin Dunne (never better) is simply looking for a nice woman to spend a few hours with and ends up fighting for his damn fool life instead. His Paul can't get a break until art intervenes (suggested by the late, great Michael Powell), bringing this hilarious endurance test back to square one again.
If you've never watched this, you're in for a treat. Linda Fiorentino and Rosanna Arquette (each at her sexiest) are terrific in the night and day loft mate roles. Character specialists Will Patton and John Heard get the best parts of their early careers. And the disc has one of the most rewarding and complementary to it's subject special features ever, definitely worth giving nineteen minutes of your time to. The pre-Disneyfied New York on display is both charming and deadly.