An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 3 wins & 10 nominations total
Tommy Chong
- Pepe
- (as Thomas Chong)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMartin Scorsese could not figure out a suitable ending for the film. He asked Brian De Palma, Steven Spielberg, and Terry Gilliam to watch the film so they could give him their opinion on how the film should end.
- GoofsOver the course of the film, Dunne's shaved unibrow changes at multiple times. Sometimes there's hair in the center of the brows, sometimes fully there, sometimes completely gone, and sometimes hair parallel off the center.
- Quotes
[after witnessing a murder through a window]
Paul Hackett: I'll probably get blamed for that.
- Crazy creditsThe closing credits are displayed over a moving shot of Paul's office, during which more and more employees show up for work. When the camera passes Paul's desk again, he has disappeared.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Worst Movies of Summer 1985 (1985)
- SoundtracksSymphony, no. 45, D major, K.95, mvt. 1: Allegro
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by The Academy of Ancient Music and Jaap Schroder
Courtesy of Polygram Special Products,
A Division of Polygram Records, Inc.
Featured review
All he wants to do is go home, simple huh?
Such a dark, ironic and uncomfortably funny string of events plus a large helping of bizarre, paranoid and unpredictable characters have never before been forged into one story.
The film follows Paul Hacket (Griffin Dunne) on a date from hell, where from square one it all goes horribly wrong. As we move on, the mood winds up into a frenzied nightmare as this poor mans' plight goes from bad to worse. "All I want to do is go home" he says, running for his life from an angry mob.
The story isn't complex, which you may think could bore, but the characters are so delightfully wacky that you can't help but be transfixed.
We've all had bad days when we've said "Phew! What a nightmare!" - well forget it, until you've taken half the knocks this guy does, you've had but a walk in the park.
Don't just rent this movie - buy it.
The film follows Paul Hacket (Griffin Dunne) on a date from hell, where from square one it all goes horribly wrong. As we move on, the mood winds up into a frenzied nightmare as this poor mans' plight goes from bad to worse. "All I want to do is go home" he says, running for his life from an angry mob.
The story isn't complex, which you may think could bore, but the characters are so delightfully wacky that you can't help but be transfixed.
We've all had bad days when we've said "Phew! What a nightmare!" - well forget it, until you've taken half the knocks this guy does, you've had but a walk in the park.
Don't just rent this movie - buy it.
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- Max_Lawless
- Aug 6, 1999
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- A Night in SoHo
- Filming locations
- 28 Howard Street, Soho, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(Kiki's loft apartment)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $4,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,609,321
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $45,435
- Sep 15, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $10,626,056
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