"Why don't you just go home?"
"Pal, I've been asking myself that all night."
-- Street Pickup and Paul Hackett, After Hours
Hello again, movie fans! My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema! This time, we watch After Hours, the 1985 dark comedy directed by Martin Scorcese, featuring Griffin Dunne as Paul Hackett, Rosanna Arquette as Marcy Franklin, Verna Bloom as June, and Teri Garr as Julie!
This time, Xan and I discuss things like Xan and I podcasting together for eight years, my getting Kiefer Sutherland's autograph for Xan at GalaxyCon 2024, paying tribute to the late Teri Garr, Griffin Dunne in Who's That Girl?, a real-life gangster from Johnny Dangerously offering to take care of the guy who killed Griffin Dunne's sister, Teri Garr as Roberta Lincoln in the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth", the C.H.U.D. acronym, the joys of MS-DOS, using a credit card to pay for cabs in the 1980s, Paul giving Kiki a massage, paper mache sex, the Wizard of Oz references you don't make during sex, mobs going after burglars, Teri Garr being in the Monkees movie Head, Cheech and Chong as art thieves, Greg Gumbel and Olivia Hussey dying on the same day, my growing up listening to "Is That All There Is?" by Peggy Lee on the Big Chuck & Lil' John Show, new Drunk Mail from Dave Proctor and Christine Peruski, my upcoming story for DC Comics, Tron being incredibly innovative, and more!
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Be sure to come back in two weeks as Xan and I watch Tron, the 1982 science fiction action film directed by Steven Lisberger, featuring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, Bruce Boxleitner as Alan Bradley & Tron, Cindy Morgan as Dr. Lora Baines & Yori, and David Warner as Ed Dillinger as Sark!