After Hours (1985)

Directed by

Martin Scorsese

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

R

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 1,771 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An office worker tries to get home from Manhattan's SoHo district at night but keeps getting stuck in a series of increasingly bizarre and dangerous situations.

anxiousdarkly comicsurrealclaustrophobicfreneticparanoidunpredictableabsurdist

What happens

After Hours is a 1985 American neo-noir black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Joseph Minion, and produced by Amy Robinson, Griffin Dunne, and Robert F. Colesberry. Dunne stars as Paul Hackett, an office worker who experiences a series of misadventures while attempting to make his way home from Manhattan's SoHo district during the night. After Hours was released by The Geffen Company (through Warner Bros.) on September 13, 1985. The film grossed $10.6 million against a $4.5 million budget and was critically acclaimed for its black humor, and is now considered to be a cult classic. The film won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature. Scorsese won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director for the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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