After Hours

Please allow 7 working days to process before shipping In 1983, “The Last Temptation of Christ” fell apart when Paramount pulled the plug weeks before filming was about to start, and Martin Scorsese needed to make something, anything, to keep his career going. The script he picked, “Lies” by Joseph Minion, was mostly an excuse to shoot something quick and cheaply like he did back in his film school days. But “After Hours” turned out to be one of the director’s most stylistically adventurous films, and one of his funniest. Joseph Minion apparently created the script in his mid-twenties as part of his work at Columbia’s Graduate Film Program. Much of the plot setup and some of the dialogue, a significant portion of the movie’s first 30 minutes in fact, were brazenly lifted from “Lies,” a 1982 NPR Playhouse monologue by Joe Frank, the great L.A.-based radio artist. Joe Frank never received official credit for his contributions, and he appears to have been paid a generous amount of