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.

Plot

After a boring day at work, computer clerk Paul Hackett strikes up conversation with a female stranger named Marcy Franklin at a café in New York City. Marcy tells him that she is living in SoHo with a sculptor named Kiki Bridges, who makes and sells plaster-of-Paris paperweights resembling cream cheese bagels, and leaves him her number. After calling her, Paul takes a taxi to her apartment later that night. On the way, his $20 bill is blown out the window of the cab, leaving him with only some change, much to the anger of the cab driver. At the apartment, Paul meets Kiki, who explains that Marcy went to the drugstore and should be back shortly. Kiki is working on a sculpture of a screaming man which he compares to Munch's The Scream. When Marcy returns, she confesses that the apartment belongs to her estranged husband who now lives in Turkey and that she has a boyfriend with whom she had a fight earlier that same night. Paul rifles through Marcy's belongings and discovers several items suggesting that Marcy is disfigured from burns; this, along with her increasingly strange behaviour, leads him to abandon the date.