“A rich, wincingly funny metaphysical farce.”
—Chicago Reader
“Delirious and challenging, a postmodern Ulysses in Nighttown.”
—Time
“A tight and witty script and perfectly tuned performances, perilously balanced between normality and insanity, keep the laughs flowing, while the direction is as polished and energetic as ever … inventive filmmaking of the first order.”
—Time Out
Martin Scorsese’s sublime “one crazy night” movie follows a square young New York professional (Griffin Dunne) bored to death by his workaday life who, over the course of a night, becomes entangled with a number of women who inhabit the Downtown night world. With Rosanna Arquette, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O’Hara, Verna Bloom, John Heard, and, of course, Cheech and Chong. In 35mm.