Kick-Back Friday: #32

By bmartin on September 19, 2008 4:57 PM | Permalink

Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985) is a wonderfully goofy, bad-dream homage to The Wizard of Oz and every anxious feeling I've ever had about Manhattan. Main-guy foil Griffin Dunne is great casting as a nerdish word processor (an obsolete job!) who ventures into SoHo to meet then it-girl Rosanna Arquette—followed by a whole string of women nut jobs.

The script dialogue, written by Joseph Minion, is still knee- and/or forehead-slapping funny.

Marcy (Arquette): 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 (Dunne): The Wizard of Oz? Yeah.