
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| TIME MagazineRichard SchickelThe result is a delirious and challenging comedy, a postmodern Ulysses in Nighttown. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonI love it for its unrelenting inventiveness, its constant motion and its curmudgeonly glass-half-empty outlook. |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergOne of the most desperately uncomfortable and uncomfortably hilarious dark comedies ever conceived, After Hours is unlike any comedy you've ever seen - and one you won't soon forget. |
| eFilmCritic.comCollin SouterOne of Scorsese's very best films. A dark parable of The Wizard of Oz, with neurosis to spare. |
| Wall Street JournalJulie SalamonAfter Hours is a caffeinated black comedy with an emphasis on speed. With a small crew and a tight shooting schedule, Scorsese transformed limited means into a staccato burst of creative energy, playing up the extreme paranoia and frustration of a data processor stranded in Soho. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsTed PriggeThis film is so bizarre that not only is it absolutely hysterical to watch, but it's also tense and frightening and one could probably benefit from a small break halfway through the film just to collect yourself. |
| EmpireIan NathanMartin Scorsese’s take on NYC puts a hip spin on Joe Minion’s cleverly constructed nightmare. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrMartin Scorsese transforms a debilitating convention of 80s comedy--absurd underreaction to increasingly bizarre and threatening situations--into a rich, wincingly funny metaphysical farce. A lonely computer programmer is lured from the workday security of midtown Manhattan to an expressionistic late-night SoHo by the vague promise of casual sex with a mysterious blond. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAfter Hours is a brilliant film that is so original, so particular, that we are uncertain from moment to moment exactly how to respond to it. The style of the film creates, in us, the same feeling that the events in the film create in the hero. Interesting. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyA SoHo version of Ulysses? A male rendition of Alice in Wonderland? In Scorsese's noir comedy, a bored, repressed Everyman becomes an alien in his own town, subjected to one surreal nightmare after another, mostly by women. |