to get an understanding of the caliber film be deal with and you have to imagine some of the fine element of other film be wind into a tight 95 minute package and direct by the incomparable martin scorsese . after hour remind this critic in many way of stanley kubrick eye wide shut . but somehow it seem to be about the best element of that film . our film deal with a mild mannered manhattan office worker take a late night trip to the soho district to meet up with a beautiful woman he first encounter earlier in the evening . so and much like with tom cruise in ew and we have a protagonist search for love in a world completely foreign to him . but instead of a never end and overly talky film and we get a tightly wound and much well pace film from scorsese . when the film do slow down for conversation and the one be treat to be comparable to the best tarantino ever write for any of his film . fortunately we do not get too many of them and like we would in a tarantino film and however . griffin dunne play paul hackett and who be bind and determine to hook up with marcy ( rosanne arquette ) whom he meet in a restaurant earlier that even . once he make it to soho and paul quickly realize this spur of the moment rendezvous may have be a terrible idea . apparently soho be ( or be in 1985 ) a macabre place full of eccentric artist and bondage enthusiast and and vigilante mob make up of mostly gay people . not only do paul fail to score with marcy and he end up be strand in the neighborhood with no money to get home and and be blame for several apartment break in by a crowd that want his blood . every place or person he turn to for help seem to get him deep and deep into danger . there be all kind of famous or soon to be famous people pop up in little role here and there . will patton a a leather clad bondage enthusiast may be the most odd . also look for scorsese in a nightclub sport a beard and shin a spotlight down on the rowdy patron . unlike many scorsese film and this one do not rely much at all on violence to get the point of danger across . i believe there be only one violent death and and the victim be not a main character . but in true scorcese form and the scene produce a laugh . more than anything else and this film have a claustrophobic feeling . it a if the world be crumble all around paul hackett and and the next door he walk through may be his last . by the final fifteen minute and he find himself in the apartment of a gay man he pick on the street . to the man obvious disappointment and hackett simply want someone to tell his story to . before the scene have any type of logical conclusion and hackett find himself back on the street run for his life once again . his momentary attempt at find compassion shatter in the blink of an eye . the whole film be kind of like that . after hour may not be for all taste and but this critic first saw it back in junior high and never forget what a treasure it be . positive star . the hound .