Hilarious Cable Info-Bar Description Of The Day: 'After Hours'

Posted at 11:58 AM Nov 26, 2008

By Kenny Herzog



Welcome back to one of NSCDUV's most beloved daily features, which takes aim at the most confounding, misleading or abruptly hysterical info-bar synopses of the day's cable programming.

And while yesterday saw John Landis running amok throughout Hollywood with all manner of ill-conceived ideas, today we turn to the apparently fantastical land of generally gritty maestro Martin Scorsese.



Today's entry is:

After Hours
The Actual Story: An oft-overlooked Martin Scorsese oddity that's less linear narrative than short vignettes connected by a central protagonist (Griffin Dunne), and also the director's most bizarrely outdated vision of New York. (SoHo dangerous? Maybe if you're phobic of Chanel and Jackson Pollack.) But it's a charming fantasy that speaks to Marty's love of New York by having uptight Wall Street-type Dunne get lost in the then-dingy downtown district, and get led to personal revelation through weird and often frightening encounters with a revolving, Wizard Of Oz/Christmas Carol-like characters. If the Ghost Of Christmas Past were played by Cheech and Chong. 
Cable-Info Bar Synopsis: A Manhattan yuppie enters a dark SoHo, led by strange women into the urban unknown. 
What Their Description Would Have You Believe: Less a subversive spin on a Christmas Carol-esque self-discovery opus and more a sinister updating of The Neverending Story (as well as ragingly misogynist), Dunne gets dragged into a Jim Henson's Labyrinth -like universe, where unimaginable, kooky and downright creepy creatures and misadventures await, until Dunne defeats the mighty urban underlord Slothfoot, and saves an unknowing above-ground urban populus from eminent takeover and enslavement.  
 
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