Joseph Minion

After Hours some sceens seem like just an academic in-joke, but actually it has a lot to do with the spirit of the film. Paul, the central figure in After Hours, is an office worker who goes out one night to meet a girl and finds himself caught up in a web of events that threaten his sanity and his life. Both characters start as young, smug, middle-class men. Joseph Minion’s script for this film starts by showing us Paul in his office, training a co-worker, completely bored with his situation and disengaged from the people around him. But the development is so carefully structured that we’re with the film all the way.