After Hours (film)

After Hours
Theatrical release poster by Marvin Mattelson[1]
Directed byMartin Scorsese
Written byJoseph Minion
Story byJoe Frank (uncredited story portions)
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMichael Ballhaus
Edited byThelma Schoonmaker
Music byHoward Shore
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • September 13, 1985 (1985-09-13)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4.5 million[2]
Box office$10.6 million[3]

After Hours is a 1985 American black comedy film[4] directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Joseph Minion, and produced by Amy Robinson, Griffin Dunne, and Robert F. Colesberry. Dunne stars as Paul Hackett, an office worker who experiences a series of misadventures while attempting to make his way home from New York City's SoHo district during the night.

After Hours was critically acclaimed for its black humor, and is considered to be a cult film. To date, It is the last feature-length film by Scorsese to not be an adaptation or biopic.

The film won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature. Scorsese won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director for the film.

  1. ^ "After Hours / One sheet / Style B / USA". filmonpaper.com.
  2. ^ Friedman, Lawrence S. (1998). The cinema of Martin Scorsese. New York: Continuum. ISBN 0826410774.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Variety was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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