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After Hours

Movie · 1985 · 97 min

A manic, darkly comic night odyssey that grows increasingly surreal and claustrophobic, keeping you tense and amused as one man's simple night out spirals into a paranoid urban nightmare.

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1985 film by Martin Scorsese
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Year
1985
Runtime
97 min
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • fate
  • madness
  • identity
  • survival
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour8
Realism7
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight4

Details

Genres
comedy, neo-noir, black comedy
Directed by
Martin Scorsese
Written by
Joseph Minion
Starring
Catherine O'Hara, Rosanna Arquette, Teri Garr, Cheech Marin, Linda Fiorentino, John Heard, Will Patton, Griffin Dunne
Music
Howard Shore
Cinematography
Michael Ballhaus
Runtime
97 min
Country
United States
Languages
English

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