After Hours (1985), starring Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette (VIDEO)

Watch the trailer for After Hours, starring Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette; No. 13 on our list of the 100 best New York movies.

By Joshua Rothkopf Tue Jul 3 2012

New York movies: After Hours (1985)

Martin Scorsese has made bigger movies—that’s inarguable—but none capture the wasteland that was ’80s Soho after midnight better than this black comedy, a time capsule of NYC weirdness. Frantic Griffin Dunne wanders through papier-mâché-strewn artist lofts, the Moondance Diner and the Emerald Pub, all on his desperate way to get back home (or at least to survive the wiles of Teri Garr).—Joshua Rothkopf

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