After Hours (film)

After Hours is a 1985 film about an ordinary word processor who has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
 * Directed by Martin Scorsese. Written by Joseph Minion.

What if that date you thought would never end, didn't? (taglines)

Paul Hackett

 * [on his knees, screaming to the heavens] What do you want from me? What have I done? I'm just a word processor, for Christ sake!

Dialogue

 * Paul: Could we have the check?
 * Coffee Shop Cashier: It's on the house.
 * Paul: Really?
 * Coffee Shop Cashier: Sure. What the hell. Different rules apply when it get's this late. You know what I mean? It's like after hours.


 * Paul: Which way you headed?
 * Marcy: Downtown, SoHo.
 * Paul: Oh, nice... nice. A loft?
 * Marcy: Yeah, she's a sculptress. Lately she's been making these Plaster of Paris bagel and cream cheeses.
 * Paul: Really...
 * Marcy: She's tryin to sell 'em as paperweights. You wanna buy one?
 * Paul: Paperweights?... uh, yeah I would. How much are they?
 * Marcy: I don't know. Well, if you think you might be interested, her number is 243-3460.
 * Paul: 243-3460.
 * Marcy: Her name's Kiki Bridges.
 * Paul: Kiki Bridges, okay.
 * Marcy: Nice talkin' to ya.
 * Paul: Yeah, great talkin' to you.


 * Pepe: Art sure is ugly.
 * Neil: Shows how much you know about art. The uglier the art, the more it's worth.
 * Pepe: This must be worth a fortune, man.


 * Paul: Is Marcy here?
 * Kiki: She had to go to the all-night drugstore.
 * Paul: Is she all right?
 * Kiki: It's under control.


 * Kiki: You do that all day and your own shoulders get pretty sore.
 * Paul: You want a massage?
 * Kiki: You read my mind. Would you?
 * Paul: Sure. I'm not too good at this. I just know a few basic moves.
 * Kiki: Just make it hurt and you're on the right track.


 * Marcy: I hope you don't have to get up early tomorrow morning or anything.
 * Paul: No. No, I don't.
 * Marcy: Because I think you're somebody I can really talk to. And tonight I feel like - I feel like I'm gonna let loose or something. I feel like - I feel like something incredible is really gonna happen here! [laughs] I feel soooo excited. I don't know why? I feel it. [laughs] I'm glad you came. [laughs]


 * Paul: Greg called.
 * Marcy: Oh, how'd that little faggot find out I was staying here tonight? He probably wants to whine to me about his latest boyfriend.
 * Paul: Friends like that are hard to deal with sometimes.
 * Marcy: Well, that's what friends are for!


 * Paul: Why don't you just tell me what's wrong?
 * Marcy: I was raped once. As a matter of fact it happened right here in this very room. I lived here once. He came in through there on the fire escape. He held a knife to my throat and said if I made a move, he'd cut my tongue out. He tied me to the bed... he took his time... six hours.
 * Paul: My god... Was he, uh... did they get this guy?
 * Marcy: No. Actually it was a boyfriend of mine. To tell you the truth, I slept through most of it. So... there you are.


 * Marcy: My husband was a movie freak. Actually, he was particularly obsessed with one movie, "The Wizard of Oz." He talked about it constantly. I thought it was cute at first. On our wedding night, I was a virgin. When we made love - you've seen the movie, haven't you?
 * Paul: "The Wizard of Oz"? Yeah.
 * Marcy: Well, whenever he - you know, when he came...
 * Paul: Yeah.
 * Marcy: ...he would scream out, "Surrender Dorothy!" That's all! Just "Surrender Dorothy!"
 * Paul: Wow.
 * Marcy: Instead of saying something normal like, "Oh, God," or something normal like that. I mean, it was pretty creepy! And I told him I thought so, but he just, he just couldn't stop, he just, he just couldn't stop, he just... couldn't stop.


 * Paul: What type of pot is this?
 * Marcy: Colombian.
 * Paul: That's a lie.
 * Marcy: What?
 * Paul: This isn't Colombian. I don't even think it's pot.
 * Marcy: That's what the guy who sold it to me said it was...
 * Paul: Well, the guy who sold it to you is a liar. So are you.
 * Marcy: Don't get upset, I just won't buy it from him anymore. Are you all right?
 * Paul: Where are those Plaster of Paris paperweights, anyway? I mean, that's what I came down here to see in the first place. Well, that's not entirely true, I came to see you, but where are the paperweights? That's what I wanna see now!
 * Marcy: What's the matter?
 * Paul: I said I wanna see a Plaster of Paris bagel and cream cheese paperweight, now cough it up.
 * Marcy: Right now?
 * Paul: Yes, right now!
 * Marcy: They're in Kiki's bedroom.
 * Paul: Then get 'em, cause as we sit here chatting, there are important papers flying rampant around my apartment cause I don't have ANYTHING to hold them down with.


 * Julie: Hey Paul, do you like my hairdo?
 * Paul: Yes... yes, I do.
 * Julie: Then why don't you touch it?


 * Tom the Bartender: How about a drink? You look like you could use one.
 * Paul: You don't happen to have any powerful aphrodisiacs back there, do you?
 * Tom the Bartender: She won't put out, huh?
 * Paul: No, it's not for her. It's for me. I seem to have gotten myself involved with one of your cocktail waitresses.
 * Tom the Bartender: Miss Bee Hive 1965.
 * Paul: Yes. Don't even ask me how.
 * Tom the Bartender: So, take off. What's she gonna do? Kill herself?


 * [Paul is trying to get into a nightclub]
 * Club Berlin Bouncer: Got any money?
 * Paul: Yes I got money. Is that what this is all about, you want money? Why didn't you ask for that in the first place man. Here, it's all I got.
 * [gives the Bouncer a quarter]
 * Club Berlin Bouncer: I'll take your money 'cos I don't want you to feel you left anything untried. Now, you keep the quarter... [gives Paul his quarter back] ...but you still have to wait a few minutes.


 * Paul: Why doesn't he have to wait a few minutes?
 * Club Berlin Bouncer: Tonight is mohawk night. If you had a mohawk, you could go in.
 * Paul: [laughs] Oh, come on! We're both adults! Why don't you just let me in?
 * Club Berlin Bouncer: Do you really want to go inside?


 * Paul: You wouldn't believe what I've been through tonight. You just, wouldn't believe it.
 * Gail: Oh, I'm an ice cream vendor - Mr. Softee.
 * Paul: What? I - you misunderstood me. I didn't ask what you did for a living. I said, you wouldn't believe what I've been through tonight.
 * Gail: It's not boring. And I have my own Mr. Softee truck. It's not - it's not boring.


 * Paul: I have had a terrible, terrible night. Do you understand?
 * Gail: I'm just trying to entertain you.
 * Paul: I don't want any entertainment! And, I'm sorry I did that. I'm sorry. I am under - oh God, I - I'm unable to get home tonight, you know. I can't get home.


 * [Paul has no money for a subway token]
 * Paul: Couldn't you just give me one token, please?
 * Subway Attendant: I can't do that. I may lose my job.
 * [Paul looks around and sees no one else in the station]
 * Paul: Well, who would know... exactly?
 * Subway Attendant: I could go to a party, get drunk, talk to someone... who knows?

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 * Julie: I'm gonna give you a present.
 * Paul: Don't do that. That's really not necessary at all. I mean, I've only known you for, what, an hour.
 * Julie: No, no, no. You said that you were gonna come back and you did. In these days, that is something to be commended and rewarded. Do you know what this is?
 * Paul: No.
 * Julie: This is a Plaster of Paris bagel and cream cheese paperweight. I bought it from a local artist, Kiki Bridges. Did you ever hear of her?

Taglines

 * What if that date you thought would never end, didn't?


 * When it's after midnight in New York City, you don't have to look for love, laughter and trouble. They'll all find you!


 * What is the very worst night you ever had...?

Cast

 * Griffin Dunne - Paul Hackett
 * Rosanna Arquette - Marcy Franklin
 * Teri Garr - Julie
 * John Heard - Tom Schorr
 * Catherine O'Hara - Gail
 * Linda Fiorentino - Kiki Bridges
 * Verna Bloom - June
 * Tommy Chong - Pepe
 * Cheech Marin - Neil
 * Will Patton - Horst
 * Clarence Felder - Club Berlin Bouncer
 * Dick Miller - Pete, diner waiter
 * Bronson Pinchot - Lloyd