After Dark, My Sweet

Jason Patric is Jackie Gleason's grandson and as he was funny Jason is hot. This movie really shows that. All dark and brooding and a little dirty the movie is pretty good also. It has some nice twist and the acting... Full review

Jason Patric is Jackie Gleason's grandson and as he was funny Jason is hot. This movie really shows that. All dark and brooding and a little dirty the movie is pretty good also. It has some nice twist and the acting... Full review

Intense actors like Bruce Dern, Jason Patrick and Rachel Ward combine to make this modern-day film noir a winner. Of the three, I don't know who was most interesting as all offer good performances and intriguing characters.Patric does the narration... Full review

Ever read Jim Thompson? He's hard-boiled noir with the most extreme fatalism and misanthropy I've ever encountered. There are rarely private detectives in his work - just losers, psychotics and small-time con artists. This film has Thompson nailed - "If... Full review

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... Full review

Ex-boxer turned drifter, Kid Collins (Patric), wafts his way into the life of a con-man and a drunk. Wanting to stay below the radar, Collins takes refuge with a woman that trades shelter for work. The death of her husband... Full review

If you're as huge of a fan of an author as I am of Jim Thompson, it can be pretty dodgy when their works are converted to film. This is not the case with Scott Foley's rendition of AFTER DARK... Full review

It is rare that one comes across a movie as flawless as this. It's truly one of the best acted, most tightly structured films I've ever seen. Every line of dialogue can be interpreted in several ways, relating to each... Full review

While watching the exquisitely photographed film After Dark, My Sweet, one has to admire Jason Patrick's heartbroken voiceover. His narration is a combination of punch-drunkenness, paranoia, and a surrendering to fate. Like in many noirs, Collie knows there is no... Full review

This is a moody, oblique, adult thriller that seems to bore most of the reviewers so far, making me think that they're all mostly adolescent-type viewers. While not a perfect film noir, AFTER DARK, MY SWEET is a particularly unusual... Full review

it grossed less than $3 million, has been almost forgotten, and remains one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern films noir.....The closing 20 minutes of this movie contain masterful storytelling, with important decisions arriving silently, by implication.....The story is so intimate that everything depends on the performances, and Jason Patric , Rachel Ward and Bruce Dern....a character actor named George Dickerson, bring a grim, poetic sadness to the story..... ... Full Review

it grossed less than $3 million, has been almost forgotten, and remains one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern films noir.....The closing 20 minutes of this movie contain masterful storytelling, with important decisions arriving silently, by implication.....The story is so intimate that everything depends on the performances, and Jason Patric, Rachel Ward and Bruce Dern....a character actor named George Dickerson, bring a grim, poetic sadness to the story..... ... Full Review

After Dark, My Sweet is cool and compelling for about 45 minutes....Jason Patric gives a good performance as Bill ''Kid'' Collins, a volatile, childlike drifter who falls into the clutches of a couple of desperate schemers (Rachel Ward and Bruce Dern)..... ... Full Review

Like all good film noir efforts, "After Dark" is cynical and uncertain, unraveling its mystery and revealing its truths slowly and uneasily. She's the kind of woman we'd like to see get her act together, despite our suspicion that she is manipulating Patric for her own purposes. ... Full Review

After Dark, My Sweet'' is cool and compelling for about 45 minutes.....The trouble with ''After Dark, My Sweet'' is that doom keeps crashing in from all sides.....Despite a few moments of vivid yearning, she comes across as blowsy and disinterested:.... ... Full Review

The monster under your bed does exist in Joshua Hoffine's world, and the US photographer delves into some pretty dark pockets of the mind to re-create our childhood fears. ... Full Article

Jim Thompson's provocative pulp crime fiction of the '50s and '60s might have been lost to the dime-store racks of the past if not for an auspicious rediscovery of his work, first in print and then in film. ... Full Article

Adapted from a novel by pulp writer Jim Thompson, After Dark, My Sweet evokes memories of the film noirs of yore. Jason Patric plays Collie, a short-fused ex-boxer who gets mixed up with alcoholic widow Fay (Rachel Ward) and burned-out... ... Full Article

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson The best American adaptations of a Jim Thompson novel are The Grifters and After Dark, My Sweet, but even they don't quite capture the full intensity of this overachieving mystery writer. ... Full Article