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After Hours (1985)
★ 7.5 · 1,721 ratings on TMDB
When it's after midnight in New York City, you don't have to look for love, laughter and trouble. They'll all find you!
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
DirectorMartin Scorsese
The emergence reading
After Hours keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
