After Hours Page #3

Synopsis: A meek word processor impulsively travels to Manhattan's Soho District to date an attractive but apparently disturbed young woman and finds himself trapped there in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Martin Scorsese
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
90
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
1985
97 min
$10,600,000
2,930 Views


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...this blindfold to put on...

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...and she told me never to take it off.

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If I did...

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...they'd have to do the operation

all over again.

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I didn't understand what my tonsils

had to do with my eyes either.

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But anyway...

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...that night...

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...at least I think it was night...

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...I had reached up...

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...to untie the blindfold...

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...and...

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...I saw...

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[KIKI SNORING]

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[BANGING]

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Hello again.

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- Sorry about this. I was detained.

PAUL:
Don't worry about it.

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- So how are you?

- Good.

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Well, I made it.

You wouldn't... I'm here.

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Uh...

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Let's go into my room

and get away from all this mess.

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Sure.

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Your roommate was just

dipping all day.

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Put me to work.

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I feel like a real SoHo artist.

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What did you do to her?

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I didn't do anything to her.

She was asleep.

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I mean, she just... She was tired.

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- What do you mean, what did I do?

- Easy, easy. It was an innocent question.

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Look, I'm gonna take a quick shower.

I'll be right back, okay?

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Sure. Yeah, I mean, I think a shower

would probably do you good.

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You had a tough day.

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I knew there was something special

about you.

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I hope you don't have to get up early

tomorrow or anything.

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PAUL:

No. No, I don't.

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Because I think you're somebody

I can really talk to.

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And tonight I feel like...

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I feel like I'm gonna let loose

or something.

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I feel like...

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I feel like something incredible

is really gonna happen here.

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[LAUGHING]

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I feel so excited

and I don't know why.

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I feel it.

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I'm glad you came.

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PAUL:

Me too.

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If you want a joint,

there's some in there.

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Uh... No. Maybe later.

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[PHONE RINGING]

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[WATER RUNNING]

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- Hello?

MAN:
iIs Marcy there?/i

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She can't come to the phone right now.

May I take a message?

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- iCould you just tell her Greg called?/i

- Sure.

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KIKl:

Is she back?

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Uh-huh.

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[BATHROOM DOOR CLOSES]

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[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

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- That felt good.

- Yeah.

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- You want me to close the window?

- No, I got it.

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Boy! Whoever used to live here

must have been a bodybuilder.

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Jesus.

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Who's Franklin?

The buzzer, when I came over...

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Hey, I thought I told you

to stay on the bed.

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Right.

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I'm gonna ask you to wait here

just one more minute. I promise.

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- All right.

- You're the best.

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[MARCY AND KIKI WHISPERING]

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MARCY:
What, Paul?

- What?

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What did you say?

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I didn't say anything.

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You didn't just say something

just now?

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No, I didn't say anything.

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I could have sworn I thought

I heard you say something in here.

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Well...

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...I didn't.

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I don't think I'll be able

to sleep at all tonight.

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What's that smell? Is that linseed?

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- It's skin moisturizer. I have dry skin.

- Really?

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Feels pretty soft to me.

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Please.

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- What's the matter?

- Nothing.

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I think you're very nice, I do.

Could we just talk a little while?

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Of course. Sure.

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- Greg called.

- Oh.

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How did that little f*ggot find out

I was staying here tonight?

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Probably wants to whine to me

about his latest boyfriend.

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Friends like that

are hard to deal with sometimes.

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Well, that's what friends are for.

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- I know that, but I meant...

- I just can't deal with it tonight.

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Does he want me to call him back?

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He didn't say.

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Well...

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Since you answered the phone...

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...he probably figured I was...

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I'm scared.

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Why don't you just tell me

what's wrong.

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I was raped once.

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As a matter of fact,

it happened right here in this room.

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I lived here once.

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He came in through there,

off the fire escape.

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He held a knife to my throat

and said...

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...if I made any noise

he'd cut my tongue out.

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Joseph Minion

Joseph Minion (born 1957 in Teaneck, New Jersey) is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985). Born in New Jersey in 1957, Minion briefly attended NYU Film School before finishing his studies at Columbia University, then renowned for its screenwriting program. In 1984, Minion's script for After Hours was optioned by Griffin Dunne and Amy Robinson, the latter a former actress who'd appeared as Harvey Keitel's damaged girlfriend in Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973). Robinson sent Minion's screenplay to Scorsese, whose Last Temptation of Christ had recently fallen through; production on After Hours started shortly afterward. Later, it surfaced that Minion had plagiarized portions of After Hours from radio host Joe Frank, who sued and settled for an undisclosed sum.Minion continued his screenwriting career with 1987's Julia and Julia starring Kathleen Turner; 1989's Vampire's Kiss, starring Nicolas Cage; Motorama (1991); and On the Run (1999). He also worked again with Martin Scorsese in 1986 for an episode of Amazing Stories, "Mirror, Mirror".As a director, Minion made his debut for producer Roger Corman with 1987's Daddy's Boys, said to have been thrown together at the last minute to make use of standing sets for Big Bad Mama II. His last outing as director was for another low-budget feature, Trafficking (1999). more…

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