Every Martin Scorsese Film Ranked Worst To Best

An underappreciated film in Scorsese's startling filmography, After Hours sports a brilliantly simple premise and a tone unlike any of the director's other projects.

Set over one night, the flick follows Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) after a typically boring day at work, as he comes face-to-face with a series of bizarre, comedically black misadventures.

At once a slapstick and dark comedy, After Hours was made as a coping mechanism: Scorsese's recent passion project The Last Temptation of Christ had just entered development hell, and he wanted to produce something looser and more fun to work through the situation.

So that's exactly what he did. Not only is After Hours one of Scorsese's lighter efforts, it's also one of his best films full stop; a refreshing, gloomy satire of daily life that creates awkward but brilliant laughs and gasps out of sexual misunderstandings, death and Paul's increasingly bad luck.