After Hours (1985)
88%RT Audience Score: 87%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
3 wins & 10 nominations total
Bursting with frantic energy and tinged with black humor, After Hours is a masterful — and often overlooked — detour in Martin Scorsese’s filmography
After Hours is a wild ride that will leave you questioning your sanity and laughing at the absurdity of it all. Martin Scorsese’s direction is top-notch, and the cinematography is stunning. It’s a movie that’s both hilarious and terrifying, and you’ll never look at a paperweight the same way again. If you’re in the mood for a surrealistic nightmare with a mainstream slickness, then this is the movie for you. Just don’t blame us if you have trouble sleeping afterwards.
Production Company(ies)
Alcon Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Sony
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
28 Howard Street, Soho, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
MPAA / Certificate
R
Year of Release
1985
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Mono
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:1h 37m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Oct 11, 1985 Original
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 17, 2004
Genre(s)
Comedy
Keyword(s)
After Hours, Martin Scorsese, Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Teri Garr, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Robert F Colesberry, Amy Robinson, Comedy, R, $10.9M, reviewed by Christy Lemire, Paul Attanasio, Sheila Benson, Jay Boyar, Peter Travers, Bill Goodykoontz, Brian Eggert, Taylor Baker, Tom Meek, Steve Warren, Sean Burns, Gena Radcliffe, time capsule, New York, madness, black comedy, screenplay, acting, surreal, hypnagogic state, desperation, dark, energy, weird
Worldwide gross: $10,609,321
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $29,965,973
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,551
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 3,267,827
US/Canada gross: $10,609,321
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $29,965,973
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,275
US/Canada opening weekend: $45,435
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $128,331
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,838
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $4,500,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $12,710,227
Production budget ranking: 1,569
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $6,844,457
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $10,411,289
ROI to date (est.): 53%
ROI ranking: 1,130
Rosanna Arquette – Marcy Franklin
Teri Garr – Julie
Verna Bloom – June
Tommy Chong – Pepe
Linda Fiorentino – Kiki Bridges
Director – Martin Scorsese
Producers – Robert F. Colesberry, Griffin Dunne, Amy Robinson
Director(s)
Martin Scorsese
Writer(s)
NA
Producer(s)
Robert F. Colesberry, Griffin Dunne, Amy Robinson
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
3 wins & 10 nominations total
Academy Awards
All Critics (57) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (52) | Rotten (5)
It might not make any sense. It might not even matter. But it’s a blast while it lasts, and it brings the most perfect of endings along with the sunrise.
April 9, 2018 | Rating: 3/4
Christy Lemire
ChristyLemire.com
TOP CRITIC
That “After Hours” fails to satisfy, that it derails, that even its own director tires of the material halfway through, would disappoint no one if the name of Martin Scorsese didn’t appear above the title.
January 2, 2018
Paul Attanasio
Washington Post
TOP CRITIC
After Hours is dazzling movie making; you could get a giddy kick just from cinematographer Michael Ballhaus’ shot as a set of house keys floats down toward the camera, tossed from a top-floor apartment.
March 18, 2015
Sheila Benson
Los Angeles Times
TOP CRITIC
Like many of Scorsese’s earlier pictures, After Hours has a fascination with the bizarre. But the new film is lighter in spirit than any Scorsese film, with the possible exception of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.
March 18, 2015
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel
TOP CRITIC
It’s not that they don’t make comedies like After Hours anymore. The fact is there’s never been a comedy quite like this one.
March 18, 2015
Peter Travers
People Magazine
TOP CRITIC
It’s his most-un-Scorsese-like film, and it’s an overlooked gem.
March 18, 2015
Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic
TOP CRITIC
Scorsese’s 1985 release, though not commonly measured alongside his best works, represents a stylistic exercise unmatched in his career
February 14, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review
Episode 54: After Hours / Bringing Out the Dead / The Irishman
December 1, 2021 | Rating: 80/100
Taylor Baker
Drink in the Movies
A great tech time capsule from not too long ago, when PCs were rooted to the desktop and you needed change to place a phone call on a busy street corner.
June 22, 2020 | Rating: 3/4
Tom Meek
Cambridge Day
After Hours is a surrealistic nightmare, a new wave burlesque with a mainstream slickness.
April 30, 2020
Steve Warren
Bay Area Reporter
The cruelest of comedies, ‘After Hours’ makes me laugh so hard I can barely breathe. Not everybody has that reaction, though.
April 5, 2020
Sean Burns
The ARTery
He never really seems to be in mortal danger so much as mocked and harassed for being so deeply out of place. For many men, however, being made to feel small is a fate worse than death.
January 21, 2020
Gena Radcliffe
The Spool…
Plot
A meek word processor in New York impulsively travels downtown to Soho for date with an attractive, but apparently disturbed young woman, and finds himself trapped in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
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