After Dark, My Sweet

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1h 54m

After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

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An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both ... Read allAn ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions ab... Read allAn ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right.

Director
- James Foley
Writers
- Jim Thompson(novel)
- Robert Redlin(screenplay)
- James Foley(screenplay)
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Awards
- 1 nomination

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Jason Patric and Rachel Ward in After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

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Jason Patric and Rachel Ward in After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

Jason Patric in After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

Bruce Dern in After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

Jason Patric in After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

Jason Patric in After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

Bruce Dern in After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

Jason Patric in After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

Jason Patric in After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

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An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right. —Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

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Taglines
- Seduced beyond the limits of deception. Betrayed beyond the limits of desire.
Genres
Certificate
- R
Parents guide

Trivia
According to Roger Ebert, After Dark, My Sweet "is the movie that eluded audiences; it grossed less than $3 million, has been almost forgotten, and remains one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern films noir. It captures above all the lonely, exhausted lives of its characters."

Goofs
Early in the film, the person in the emergency room's heart flatlines; asystole or absence of any electrical activity. Shocking or defibrillating will do no good in the absence of cardiac activity. The proper treatment would be to give intracardiac epinephrine, followed appropriately as necessary.

Quotes
Kevin 'kid' Collins: [voiceover] When a man stops caring what happens, all the strain is lifted from him. Suspicion and worry and fear, all things that twist his thinking out of focus are brushed aside, and he can see people exactly as they are at last - as I saw Fay then: weak and frightened but basically as good as a person could be and hating herself for not being better. Suddenly, the only thing that mattered was that she live, it was the only way my having lived would make any sense. It was why I had been made like I was - to do something for her that she could not do for herself, and then to protect her so that she could go on, so that she could have the reason for living that I'd never had.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Postcards from the Edge/Saving Grace/White Hunter, Black Heart/After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

Top review

9/10

a near-flawless adaptation

The first of two Jim Thompson adaptations released in 1990 (the other being the more well-known GRIFTERS), AFTER DARK has all of Thompson's hallmarks: dangerous women, the confidence game, and characters that are either not as dim as others suspect them of being, or not as harmless.

Jason Patric is superb as a former boxer disqualified from the sport for life due to an incident in the ring (director James Foley uses RAGING BULL-esquire sequences to flesh out the back story) and the too-little-seen Rachel Ward also delivers a great performance. But Bruce Dern is the film's secret weapon: his sweet-talking grifter Uncle Bud subtly commands each of his scenes.

there's almost no comic relief in this film, so watch it prepared to be sucked into the void.

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Release date
- August 24, 1990 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- Hasta la noche, mi amor
Filming locations
- Palm Desert, California, USA
Production company
- Avenue Pictures
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Gross US & Canada
- $2,678,414
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $244,919
- Aug 26, 1990
Gross worldwide
- $2,678,414

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Runtime
1 hour 54 minutes
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Stereo
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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