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After Dark, My Sweet

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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.
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    • James Foley
    • Jim Thompson(novel)
    • Robert Redlin(screenplay)
    • James Foley(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Jason Patric
    • Rachel Ward
    • Bruce Dern
    • James Foley
    • Jim Thompson(novel)
    • Robert Redlin(screenplay)
    • James Foley(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Jason Patric
    • Rachel Ward
    • Bruce Dern
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    • 47User reviews
    • 31Critic reviews
    • 78Metascore
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    Jason Patric
    Jason Patric
    • Collie
    Rachel Ward
    Rachel Ward
    • Fay
    Bruce Dern
    Bruce Dern
    • Uncle Bud
    Rocky Giordani
    Rocky Giordani
    • Bert
    Tom Wagner
    • Counterman
    Mike Hagerty
    Mike Hagerty
    • Truck Driver
    • (as Michael G. Hagerty)
    James E. Bowen Jr.
    • Second Driver
    George Dickerson
    • Doc Goldman
    Vincent Mazella Jr.
    • Flashback Fighter
    • (as Vince Mazzella Jr.)
    Napoleon Walls
    • Boxing Referee
    Corey Carrier
    Corey Carrier
    • Jack
    Jeanie Moore
    Jeanie Moore
    • Nanny
    James Cotton
    • Charlie
    Burke Byrnes
    • Cop
    Glen Steele
    Glen Steele
    • Boxer
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    Thomas Wagner
    Thomas Wagner
        • James Foley
        • Jim Thompson(novel)
        • Robert Redlin(screenplay)
        • James Foley(screenplay)
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      • 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."
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        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.
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        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.

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

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      Underrated Neo-Noir
      Eccentric drifter Collie (Patric) left a career in boxing following a nervous breakdown. Having escaped a mental institution he wanders...And wanders...And wanders until one humid day he finds himself in the wrong town, stumbles into the wrong bar and meets Fay (Ward) -the wrong kind of older woman.

      In need of someone to care for him some way, some how Kevin is vulnerable to her entreaties though she pretty obviously looks down on him. Her flirtations are punctuated by insults no self-respecting person would tolerate. She waves red flags like a matador but Kevin has no place to go. Taken back to her place and offered a job with room and board the fly contemplates settling into the web.

      Fay takes Kevin to dinner and introduces him to Uncle Bud (Dern) - a mysterious older man who is a hundred different kinds of bad news. The quirky, charismatic, charming career criminal has a business proposition for Kevin. His instincts tell him to split especially after his new acquaintances have each warned him about the other. But a guy with limited resources can only get so far. In his case the fly nearly settles into a different kind of web which makes Fay's look appetizing.

      Jason Patric was on the verge of Hollywood superstardom before he was 25. His performance in The Lost Boys (1987), The Beast of War (1988), this film and Rush (1991) not only made him a heart-throb to millions of young women but also established him as a serious actor capable of giving edgy performances consistently. The career on the A-list which seemed almost certain to be his eluded him perhaps because he eluded it.

      Patric's first screen role was as Bruce Dern's drug-addict son in a dumb 1985 TV movie called 'Toughlove'.
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        • August 24, 1990 (United States)
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        • Palm Desert, California, USA
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        • Avenue Pictures
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