After Hours
After Hours is a 1985 American black comedy thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Joseph Minion. The film follows Paul Hackett, portrayed by Griffin Dunne, as he experiences a series of misadventures while making his way home from New York City's SoHo district during the night.
Plot
After a boring day at work, Paul Hackett, a computer data entry worker, meets Marcy Franklin in a local cafe in New York City. Marcy tells him that she is living with a sculptor named Kiki Bridges, who makes and sells plaster-of-Paris paperweights resembling cream cheese bagels, and leaves him her number. Later in the night, after calling the number under the pretense of buying a paperweight, Paul takes a cab to the apartment. On the way, his $20 bill is blown out the window of the cab, leaving him with only some change, much to the incredulity of the cab driver. At the apartment, Paul meets Kiki, who is working on a sculpture of a cowering screaming man reminiscent of Edvard Munch's "The Scream". Paul comes across several pieces of evidence throughout the visit that imply Marcy is disfigured from burns which, along with Marcy's increasingly strange behavior, lead him to slip out of the apartment abruptly.
More details
author | Joseph Minion |
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contentLocation | New York City |
director | Martin Scorsese |
editor | Thelma Schoonmaker |
genre | adventure comedy thriller |
keywords | bore break in build buy cab driver cash register edvard munch ice cream truck is that all there is? lock mister softee mohawk mohawk hairstyle morning office building papier-mâché peggy lee plaster punk punk subculture remember scream strange behavior string think truck driver wanted poster |
musicBy | Howard Shore |
producer | Amy Robinson Griffin Dunne Robert F. Colesberry |
productionCompany | Double Play Productions The Geffen Company |
publisher | Warner Bros. |
recordedAt | New York City |
theme | black comedy computer screen independent satirical |