- DIRECTOR:
Martin Scorsese
- ACTORS:
Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette Verna Bloom, Thomas Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, John Heard, Cheech Marin, Catherine O'Hara, Dick Miller, Will Patton, Bronson Pinchot
- PLOT:
The tagline pretty much says it all: "What if that date you thought would never end, didn't?"
- EVALUATION:
If you're willing to stomach one of the main characters (Arquette) killing herself halfway through the film to set up a series of comedic situations for the protagonist (Dunne), then you'll probably enjoy this darkly humorous account of a night on the town gone wrong.
- WRITING:
Occasionally amazing and helped tremendously by a cast that includes Arquette, Fiorentino, Garr, and O'Hara, all of whom can make insane things sound much more natural than you would expect.
- FILMING:
Scorsese excels at depictions of hell, in this case including a madcap taxi ride, a bedroom lit like a smoldering wildfire, and a nightclub that could not possibly be more repellent to a morning person.
- BEST PART:
That bathroom graffiti cracked me up.
- TRIVIA:
The script came from writer Joseph Minion's Ph.D. thesis.
- STINGER:
A woman is seen murdering a man, and Dunne's character deadpans "I'll probably get blamed for that."
