Later in the night, after calling the number under the pretense of buying a paperweight, Paul takes a cab to the apartment. Marcy tells him that she is living with a sculptor named Kiki Bridges, who makes and sells plaster-of-Paris paperweights resembling cream cheese bagels, and leaves him her number. Scorsese won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director for the film.Īfter a boring day at work, Paul Hackett, a computer data entry worker, meets Marcy Franklin in a local cafe in New York City.

The film won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature. It is the last feature-length film by Scorsese to not be an adaptation or biopic.

Dunne stars as Paul Hackett, an office worker who experiences a series of misadventures while attempting to make his way home from New York City's SoHo district during the night.Īfter Hours was critically acclaimed for its black humor, and is considered to be a cult film. After Hours is a 1985 American black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Joseph Minion, and produced by Amy Robinson, Griffin Dunne, and Robert F.