paul ( griffin dunne ) have just start train a fellow worker on the computer system for their firm . the co worker have trouble pay attention and for he confide to paul that he be upwardly mobile and will soon leave the mundane word processing task to underling . this get paul to think about his life . be it too blase for word . when he return home to his boring apartment and start to watch another boring show on the television and he snap . it be get late and about 10 oclock and but he decide to head for the near coffee shop . it be there that he meet an interesting woman ( roseanna arquette ) when he observe that she be read the novel call tropic of cancer . she give paul her phone number and leave . back at his dig and paul make the call and be startle to get an invitation from the lady to visit her apartment in soho . isn not it get very late . nevertheless and he hail a cab and begin the after hour journey of a lifetime . from candle and to book on burn victim and to lady who like go go boots and the monkees and to skinhead and to burglar and to sculptor into bondage and and more and this be a nightmare of a night . will paul make it home alive . this film be a brilliant black comedy of error . dunne be superb a the man who just want a bit of excitement in his world and not a hair raise encounter with the underbelly of existence in the wee hour of the morning . the rest of the cast and include arquette and linda fiorentino and cheech and chong and teri garr and and others and be also absolutely wonderful . the set and costume and and production amenity be fine and a be scorsese great direction . however and the script be the triumphant winner here and be intricate and ingenious and and very and very funny . the final scene of the film and involve a fall from a move van and be awesome and side splittingly comic . if you have any objection to humor that be far from wholesome and you should probably bypass this movie and unfortunately . but and if you want to experience the thrill of exhilarate and gleeful film making and this movie should not be miss . after all be say and do and this film deserve to be on the list of the top fifty flick of all time .