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	List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $12.95 Your Save: $ 7.03 ( 35% ) Availability: N/A Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Starring: Victor Argo, Rosanna Arquette, Larry Block, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300270916 Format: Closed-captioned ISBN: 6300270912 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: 1995-02-21 Running Time: 96 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1985-09-13
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Editorial Reviews: This well-regarded cult film is a tense Kafka-esque tale concerning what happens to a likable computer guy who is in the wrong place at the wrong time in the city that never sleeps--New York. This is a New York infested with bizarre characters vividly brought to life by a once-in-a-lifetime cast. Griffin Dunne's wonderfully controlled comic performance as Paul Hackett is the glue that holds this increasingly surreal film together. Scorsese utilizes a full array of independent and underground film techniques, including special film speed manipulations, angles, and edits, deftly capturing the strange rhythms of an after-hours New York City. Many will find the jokes clever, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. Some, however, will find the film an excruciating series of staged circumstances setting up a sadistically cruel dark nightmare of horrors. And there are a few lines of dialogue so poorly written they remind you how unbelievable the thin story really is. But forgive the film these few lapses--overall it's a wild, surreal ride. The most offbeat character is the beehive-sporting, Monkee-obsessed neurotic played to perfection by Teri Garr. And the moment when Griffin Dunne uses his last quarter to play Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is" and dances with Verna Bloom while an angry mob searches SoHo for him is an inspired bit of lunacy. --Christopher J. Jarmick
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: One of my favorite movies of all time! Comment: This movie never gets old to me. It's so out there. Every time I show it to a friend they end up with this stunned look on their face by the time the credits are rolling. I've met some crazy girls in my life and this movie definitely brings back memories! The protagonist is a talented actor, and so are all the psychotic women he hooks up with. Customer Rating: Summary: Crazy wierd Comment: Just like I remembered it from the '80's, After Hours is a crazy mixed up film thats good, plain weird fun. A cult film groupie delight. Customer Rating: Summary: They Only Come Out At Night... Comment: AFTER HOURS is one of those wonderfully weird movies that I can watch again and again. I have loved Martin Scorsese ever since BOXCAR BERTHA, and consider him to be a bloody genius. With HOURS, he takes us on a late-night tour of a nightmare NYC, a plunge into madness w/ hilarious twists and memorably odd characters. Griffin Dunne (An American Werewolf In London) plays a man trapped in a dull, seemingly pointless job who leaves work one evening, unaware that fate is about to toss him headlong into a bizarre, exhileratingly dangerous underworld. A world populated w/ neurotics, psychotics, thieves, vigilante mobs, and -gulp!- artists! Played to the hilt by the likes of Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction), Teri Garr (Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Young Frankenstein), John Heard (CHUD), Verna Bloom (Animal House), and Cheech and Chong, these night-people are never boring. If you enjoy semi-dark, surreal stuff like THE OUT OF TOWNERS (w/ Jack Lemon), THE TRIAL (w/ Anthony Perkins), or even VAMP (w/ Grace Jones), then AFTER HOURS will be a thrill... Customer Rating: Summary: I had a night like this..... I'm from Chicago Comment: I must say this is one of my top 10 favorite films. Every time I have a bad day, I watch After Hours, and somehow feel better. Anyway, the reason Im writting this, is I was wondering if there is a music genius out there somewhere, who would know how I could get my hands on the music soundtrack used for this film. Even just the list of songs/artists. I've looked everywhere, and dont believe it exists. I would however be willing to buy each cd seperately and put my own collection together. Call me crazy, but I love the movie as well as the music. Any help is gretly appreciated! Signed, that crazy behive chick from Chicago. Customer Rating: Summary: You hope the night (and the movie) never ends Comment: This film has been around for a while (decades), but this was my first viewing. Super! A guy with a hum drum office job crosses paths with a strange chick in a late night cafe. He accepts a rendezvous invitation . . . and the night in SoHo (Manhatten) takes off. Bizarre people. Bizarre circumstances. A surreal package. Well written and well executed. MUCH fun and I couldn't wait to see what would happen next. A "time check" is slipped into the story occasionally, and alas, dawn finally nears. Very different and very cool. More Reviews