After Hours

 After Hours 1985

 

• Director: Martin Scorsese
• Seen by this director: The Wolf of Wall Street, Hugo, Shutter Island, The Aviator, Gangs of New York, Bringing Out the Dead, The Last Temptation of Christ, New York New York, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Any More
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Griffin Dunne, Roseanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, John Heard, Catherine O’Hara
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Griffin Dunne – Le grand bleu, Who’s That Girl
• Roseanna Arquette – Pulp Fiction, Le grand bleu, Silverado, Desperately Seeking Susan
• Verna Bloom – The Last Temptation of Christ, TV series
• Linda Fiorentino – Dogma, Men in Black
• Terri Garr – Friends, Tootsie, Close Encounter of the Third Degree, The Conversation
• John Heard – The Great Debaters, The Sopranos, O, Pollock, The Pelican Brief, Waterland, Awakenings, The Trip to Bountiful
• Catherine O’Hara – Six Feet Under, A Might Wind, Waiting for Guffman, Beetlejuice
• Why?  Is it good enough to keep?
• Seen: Twice before. Now 10 April 2022 

Paul (Dunne) has a boring dead-end office job. He meets Marcy (Arquette) in a coffee shop. A wild New York by Night ensues.

Bizarre characters and unlikely events aren’t enough to make this a film that stands the tests of time. It was good the first time. On second viewing a few years ago, it became clear that Scorsese was trying too hard for the quirky. It was more stressful than entertaining and this third time I found it both stressful and irritating.

Definitely a film that should not have been seen more than once. 

2 ½ * of 5