Martin Scorsese’s AFTER HOURS Midnights This Weekend at The Moolah

“I said I wanna see a Plaster of Paris bagel and cream cheese paperweight, now cough it up!”

AFTER HOURS screens midnights this weekend (^{September 25th and 26th}) at The Moolah Theater (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO). Admission is only $5. Come early for great drink specials, cool trivia with even cooler prizes, and a free comedy set by the ‘MooHaa at the Moolah’ Comedians!

Getting home from a hard day’s work should be simple. For Paul Hackett, it’s a night he’ll never forget. In Martin Scorsese’s AFTER HOURS (1985) Griffin Dunne played Paul, an average Joe who gets to know too well the term ‘late night’. He works as word processor for a big computer company. He meets a lovely young woman named Marcy (Roseanna Arquette) at a coffee shop who wants to hook up later on. Unfortunately, the night doesn’t go the way he wanted to be. I remember when I first saw AFTER HOURS when it was new and hoping that Paul would make it home in one piece. Those scenes filmed in Marcy’s loft so stuck with me, the weird rape story where Arquette is rather stoic when talking about it in detail, the dimly lit studio, Linda Fiorentino sporting a mullet, the book Paul opens up of burn victims, and him busting down the door after discovering she od’d on sleeping pills and falling flat on his back are memorable. Teri Garr’s character was at first so seemingly angelic and takes a turn for the worst, so bitingly ruthless and vengeful all because of Paul’s refusal at her sexual advances. Cheech and Chong make a cameo as well. I also want to note that Howard Shore did an amazing job on the score. The music accompanies Dunne’s treacherous pilgrimage home through dark SoHo streets beautifully and accentuates the eeriness of his mishaps.

AFTER HOURS plays midnights this weekend (September 25^th and 26^th) at The Moolah Theater (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO). Admission is only $5