About Last Night... Movie
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Making love was easy...being in love difficult.
It's about men, women, choices, friendship, love, last night...
Danny and Bernie are two single men living their lives on the wild side. But when Danny meets Debbie at a bar and the two start a relationship with a one night stand, Danny's life takes a different turn. How does this passionate night become a full affair and what effect will this relationship have on both people and their friendship with their best mates ?
| Rob Lowe | Danny Martin |
| Demi Moore | Debbie |
| James Belushi | Bernie Litgo |
| Elizabeth Perkins | Joan |
| George DiCenzo | Mr. Favio |
| Michael Alldredge | Mother Malone |
| Robin Thomas | Steve Carlson |
| Donna Gibbons | Alex |
| Megan Mullally | Pat |
| Patricia Duff | Leslie |
| Rosanna DeSoto | Mrs. Lyons |
| Sachi Parker | Carrie |
| Robert Neches | Gary |
| Joe Greco | Gus |
| Ada Maris | Carmen |
| Edward Zwick |
5.80 out of 10 (5072 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Our Little Brat Pack is Growing Up
posted on 18 Mar 2009I saw this movie in the theater in 1986. I recall seeing an interview with Rob Lowe and Demi Moore in which they said they were glad to be playing characters who were their own age, after giving yeoman service to the early-eighties teen-romp genre. Perhaps after the blithering wreck that was "St. Elmo's Fire," they thought any script would be an improvement. Well, they were almost right. Not quite, though.My real problem with the characters in this movie is that all of them are unlikeable. Rob Lowe and Demi Moore do the typical Me Generation routine of Meet Cute, Sleep Together Right Away, Attempt To Cobble Meaningful Relationship Only After Ascertaining Sexual Compatibility. As an earlier reviewer noted, the majority of people who've tried this in real life have learned the hard way that you can't start in the middle if you want a happy ending.Jim Belushi has some amusing lines as Rob Lowe's blustery legend-in-his-own-mind buddy, but his "would you look at the nips on that one" attitude toward women is too offensive to redeem him otherwise. Elizabeth Perkins' adversarial attitude toward men makes it not too believable that she'd succeed in dragging a new trick home every weekend, unless we assume that she visited a veterinarian every Friday to have her fangs milked first.I haven't seen the stage play on which this movie was based, but I'd be interested to. I wonder whether the premise here is true to the playwright's original vision?
Grating on one's nerves
posted on 14 Jan 2009Although It could be worse, this movie may have done it's job Too well. Especially James Belushi playing a "jerk-friend." It feels like he has a lot of practice playing this role (know what I mean?). But Demi Moore's friend isn't much better. On the plus side, Rob Lowe's acting is very good & Moore's (such an underrated actress!) is excellent. Maybe a good movie showing young people not to rush into anything, but be warned: the medicine isn't especially good tasting.
good stuff
posted on 07 Nov 2008'About Last Night..' is by far one of the best movies I have ever seen. It has a bit of an eighties touch and a little TOO much nudity but, other than that this movie is awesome. Rob Lowe looks sexy and acts his best, and Demi Moore is just beautiful in this movie.
It takes place in Chicago and two singles Debbie and Danny, have a one night stand. They move in together and try to make a sexual relationship into a romantic one, will it work out? HMM.. I highly reccomend this movie, especially if you are a Rob Lowe fan(you see a lot of his @ss).
An honest look at relationships!!!
posted on 14 Oct 2008If there is any movie that realisticly portrays relationships, it is this one, Rob Lowe & Demi Moore are very believable as lovers who decide to live together in the hopes that they will live a long & happy life, but the perils of living together are explored very deeply here, as with any couple there are problems, past relationships,disapproving friends,adjusting to each other's habits, it is all here & anyone who has lived with anyone will see the realism of this film, if you have not ever lived with your boyfriend or girlfriend this film will seem off balance, this is the perfect film for anyone who might be thinking of moving in with their lover or anyone who has second thoughts, highly recommended!!!!
Nice slice-of-life with attractive stars
posted on 22 Sep 2008Film gets ripped by most, but I like it. Rob Lowe & Demi Moore find each other and enter on-again, off-again relationship. Demi has never looked better, and Jim Belushi is outstanding as Lowe's well-meaning but crude best friend. More realistic about relationships than most Hollywood productions.
Strikes many chords
posted on 15 Aug 2008Though most will agree this is a predictable love story of a one night stand turned serious, there are so many reasons to love this 1980's date movie. Let's start with the cast: Rob Lowe, cute as ever, is perfectly cast as playboy, Danny. His sidekick, the HILARIOUS Jim Belushi, plays the boorish best friend, always ready with a belch, cuss word and a smile. Demi Moore, though not the greatest actress of all time, plays these types of characters quiet well. She gives the character of Debbie a depth of emotion and sensitivity that all women can relate to. Elizabeth Perkins (He Said-She Said and BIG) is wonderfully sarcastic and endearing as Debbie's best friend, Joan, albeit a jealous one who seeks her own love and affection in the strangest of unattainable partners.
Next you'll love the dialog. If you came of age in the '80's you will feel your heartstrings being pulled in this film. In one poignant scene, just moments after ringing in the New Year at Mother's Bar, Rob admits to Debbie that, "I don't love you anymore..." and expresses raw feelings which alone can punch you in the chest like an iron fist, even if you have never heard those words spoken to you in a relationship.
Lots of foul language, explicit sexual conversations, nudity, steamy sex, and so on, but nothing you haven't seen before.
Last but not least, this movie has LOADS of great songs that truly match the tone of the scenes, especially those by Bob Seger, John Waite, Jermaine Jackson, and Sheena Easton. Pick up the soundtrack, you'll love every moment of it.
You will laugh, cry, and probably totally relate. Enjoy!
Sex is easy, it's love thats the hard part.
posted on 12 Jul 2008All around not a totally bad movie. It could have had less nudity. Because of all the nudity, a story and character development was looked the other way. I would have called this the original Sex And The City. The story evolves around Danny(Rob Lowe) who does not want to get serious, and Debbie who wants really to find true love. The two meet at a Chicago bar, and instantly hit it off. She decides to move in with him. But they both soon discover that sex is easy, but it's love thats the hard part. A pretty good 80's movie. The movie tried to tackle the issues of sex and love. It's well acted by everyone. But the story gave up on itself before it ever got started. Elizabeth Perkins is good has Moore's escentric Joan. And Jim Belushi is pretty good has Lowe's goofy but great friend Bernie.
Very realistic
posted on 25 Apr 2008I thought this perfectly showed what some couples go through trying to make a relationship work. Anyone who has ever dated a guy who you felt was always keeping his options open for something better, or if you ever had meddlesome friends try to sabotage your relationship, you need to see this movie. I could actually feel exactly what Demi Moore's character felt on New Year's Eve when Rob Lowe told her "I don't...love you." Heartbreaking! And it was so touching when they showed the montage of scenes after they broke up, with Demi crying with her head in Elizabeth Perkins' lap. Great movie, really makes you think.
this is a great movie
posted on 05 Mar 2008this movie is the best movie that I have ever seen. It is a true relationship movie that both men and women would enjoy. It is based on a couple and the problems in their relationships that they have to endure. If you are looking for a real life situation movie that you would enjoy I would suggest you rent it or even buy it. It has everything!! It will make you think, cry and laugh in two hours.
2 parts 80's romantic comedy, 1 part soft porn
posted on 26 Feb 2008Two parts 80's romantic comedy, one part soft porn, this movie isn't anything spectacular, but it's fun. The jokes were cute, you might laugh out loud once or twice, and you get to see some pretty steamy love scenes towards the middle. It's no great cinematic feat, but it's certainly not a bad way to spend a rainy day with your honey.
David Mamet turned into "thirtysomething"
posted on 13 Feb 2008This is a pretty good movie, although the initial effect is disconcerting, like watching a sit-com that is painfully real and not just escapist fare. The players, Demi Moore and Rob Lowe as the lovers, and Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins as their jealous friends, are very good, and Director Edward Zwick is to be complemented on getting so much out of all of them. The script, loosely based on David Mamet's play "Sexual Perversions in Chicago," is filled with sharp, clever and sometimes insightful lines worth quoting.One is when Moore breaks off the relationship with her boss to be exclusively with Lowe. Taken back, he says, "But I thought we had something special." She replies, "No. It was sleazy, and now it's over."Another is when Moore's sensitive and brutally sarcastic (and jealous) friend Perkins arrives for Thanksgiving and says to Lowe about cloddish, working-class Jim Belushi, who hasn't arrived yet, "Your vulgarian friend is downstairs denting innocent people's fenders."After the two lovers move in together, and she has more than a drawer in his apartment and doesn't have to carry an extra pair of panties in her purse, they begin with "I love..." (awkward pause) "making love with you" (pure Mamet). But when he doesn't share his feelings with her, she says, "I don't want to be your roommate anymore. I had a roommate."What she wants is emotional intimacy. A woman needs emotional intimacy because then she knows where she stands and she has some control. They move closer and she (caught unaware) says, "I love you." He (on the spot, camera close) replies, "I love you too." She sheds a tear, just one, as they hug, perhaps in joy, or perhaps because she doesn't know whether he really loves her or not, and it's so very, very important. The next day Belushi asks who said it first and cavalier Lowe says he did. Belushi, who boorishly fancies himself a lady's man, lectures his friend on just how very poor studly style that is."About Last Night" is really about forming and securing the bond between a man and a woman. It's trial by fire. Their emotions are on edge and their individuality is threatened. And all around them are people and circumstances, and their very own animal natures, testing and probing the strength of the bond. When it breaks the pain is enormous.Lowe says: "I didn't fool around. Not once!" Moore rejoins: "Give the boy a medal. I didn't realize it was such a sacrifice."Then comes her awkward and sad double date with the nerdy card trick artist with the British accent. Perkins says, "Couldn't you just listen to him all night?" and we're thinking, NOT for even one minute.Meanwhile we have Lowe's casual pickups. Meaningless sex, and then not even that. But when he saves his friend's cafe, he grows up.Belushi and Perkins are wonderful as "opposites attract." They fight the magnetism to the very end-speaking of which, the best part of the movie is the ending. It is perfect.It should be noted that the movie is larger than Mamet's one-act play and covers ground not even considered in the play. The play was a somewhat crude, but insightful, comedy about sex. The movie is a popular drama about relationships.
Living Together 101
posted on 15 Dec 2007This romantic drama stars Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, who meet and fall in love early in the film and then take the viewers on a roller-coaster ride of emotions. This is a love story that provides several ups and downs as it moves through the peaks and valleys of the relationship. Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins provide some humor in interacting with each other and the two stars. They discourage the relationship between their best friends at times and provide emotional support on other occasions. A romantic film that takes a serious look at both the advantages and pitfalls of two people in love moving in together. Belushi provides enough laughs to keep the story from becoming excessively dramatic. In my personal opinion, this movie has been under rated by IMDb voters and could be considered required viewing for young couples contemplating a similar situation.
The Pinnacle of Eighties Fashion
posted on 22 Oct 2007Watching this film, it's very hard to avoid the distractions of Demi Moore's fluffy jumpers, Elizabeth Perkins' ragdoll perm, Rob Lowe's apparent fear of haircutting scissors, and most alarming of all, James Belushi's BEIGE leather jacket. But if you can tear your eyes away from these atrocities, it's a very engaging film. The characters are interesting, especially Belushi and Perkins playing the extremes of chauvinism and feminism, and there are some good lines. I hated the ending, but others may not share my opinion there.
Sleezy screw...
posted on 04 Oct 2007Contains SpoilersIntroductionThe movie `About Last Night' opens with Bernie (Belushi) telling Dan (Lowe) about a recent sexual conquest that quickly spins off into the ridiculous. This is where the movie tries to establish these two as `regular guys.'
They do regular guy things like play softball, hang out at the local bar, get drunk, boast about their sexual achievements, and hustle bar lurking sluts. These wantons include Debbie (pre-boob job Demi Moore) and Joan (Elizabeth Perkins), her roommate. With this lovely setting the movie insinuates many concepts that are described in chapters 8, 9 and 10 of the text book Looking Out Looking In. There are literally hundreds of concepts illustrated in this movie. Some aspects that will be exposed are: reciprocal attraction, initiating and intensifying relationships, personal disclosure and expressed struggle.
While I will agree with Brenda that this is not perhaps the best movie in the world, it is an excellent example of relationships and communication.Reciprocal AttractionOne of the first topics I noticed from the film was reciprocal attraction.
Debbie is having an affair with her boss, but Danny is just so cute that she sleeps with him on the first date. Their date consisted of, `Hi, hello' and then sex. On their second so-called `date' Debbie relented her strong moral values and screwed him again, again and again. The text Looking Out Looking In says that, `We like people who like us-usually. The power of reciprocal attraction is especially strong in the early stages of a relationship. At that time we are attracted to people who we believe are attracted to us' (332). At this point their relationship is strong because of their physical attraction for one another. Each of them lusted for the other's body and had no real interest in the others personality or character.InitiatingBefore all this copulation began, Debbie and Danny's initiating moment started the night they first met at the bar. The book explains, `the goals in the first stage [of initiating] are to show that you are interested in making contact and to show that you are the kind of person worth talking to' (345). Both Debbie and Dan were very much interested in each other when they first spoke. Their eyes were feast fully fixated on each other and both had a different agenda than just chatting. The text goes on to say that `communication during this initiating stage is usually brief and generally follows conventional formulas' (345). Sex, while highly unconventional, was Debbie's way of saying, `I'm interested in you and I want to start a relationship.'IntensifyingAfter initiating, and a few other stages, comes intensifying. This is the stage where Dan and Debbie begin to see themselves as `we.' Debbie has since left her roommate and moved in with Dan. There is a moment when tensions are high and Debbie exclaims, `Do you want me out?' Dan replies, `Yes!' Debbie then says, `Fine I'll leave.' Dan doesn't like the idea that she is essentially leaving him so he protests, `You can't leave, this is our place.' This conflict helps them realize that they are not individuals anymore, only a couple. Other intensifying actions that take place are physical caresses, Debbie striving to stay beautiful for Dan and doing favors for each other.Personal DisclosureAnother matter that the movie successfully conveyed was personal disclosure. The definition of self-disclosure is, `the process of deliberately revealing information about oneself that is significant and that would not normally be known by others' (359). Disclosure takes place when Debbie tells Dan some secrets that only women know. In return Debbie wants to know something about him. Dan tells her that he wants to open his own restaurant but its too expensive and he needs a license.Expressed StruggleIn the book this is noted as `showing displeasure with somebody without saying a word' (431). A conflict can exist only when both parties are aware of a disagreement. For instance, after they break up and Dan tries trolling the bars for women, he decides he wants Debbie back. She rebuffs him, saying, `We had nothing. We had good sex.' She's right on. Their struggle is finally out in the open and now Dan is aware of the conflict and how Debbie views it. Further along Debbie highlights the expressed struggle by her bitterness when ignoring Dan and all his attempts to re-establish a relationship. ConclusionThis movie is typical of the late 1980's, exposes many of the principles in the text. From Joan bringing home a string of guys in an attempt to out-slut her roomie to Debbie's sleazy screw scenes in the tub, one often wonders the value of such a film. This film has its finger on the pulse of Hollywood's moral code and it's pressing hard, very hard. The girls are sluts, the guys are whores, and everybody sleeps with everybody. In fact, you're not really dating unless you're screwing. But, hey, it's not totally exclusive sex! Debbie can nail her married boss and it's considered `O.K.'
But when one of Joan's solicitants turns out to be married (unbeknownst to her), he's committed the unforgivable sin. Along with these facts are some great examples of personal relationships and the stages they go through.
About as romantic a movie as possible, but definitely deserves its R rating
posted on 30 Jul 2007Debbie (Demi Moore) is a successful, young professional in the Chicago area. She and her friends like to hit the neighborhood bar and ogle the men. These women consider themselves "modern", that is, they are not looking for a lasting relationship, just a hot night with Mr. Good Looking. One evening, after a softball game, Debbie meets Dan (Rob Lowe). They are instantly smitten with each other, both being very attractive and very hormonal, and they spend the night together. Debbie tells him thanks for the "slice of heaven" and goes on her way. Yet, a day later, they end up calling one another on the phone, at the same moment. They set up a second date, which ends in another lusty evening. Fairly soon, they move in together but set up guidelines. None of this acting like a married duo, although they take turns cooking and shopping. Yet, is it possible for them to treat each other like roommates only and never let their hearts be touched? And, how long will their relationship last? This is truly a very romantic movie with many assets. Lowe and Moore are absolutely gorgeous, gorgeous human beings and lovely to look upon. The movie also has an intelligent, humorous, truthful and very touching script. Then, too, the costumes, Chicago setting, and cinematography are very worthy, indeed. However, if you like your movies without a lot of sexual encounters, this is not the film for you. This story is an exploration of the nature of modern existence, where sex and birth control are both readily available. As such, it has many eyebrow raising scenes of romantic tete-a-tetes. Therefore, if you prefer good, clean romance movies, try Return to Me or Only You instead. But, if you are willing to look past some fast and loose scenes in exchange for a truly touching and romantic film, get this one tonight.
Better every time!
posted on 28 Jun 2007Having first viewed this film on the big screen and watched it again recently I am struck at how current this film remains. Although touted as a romantic comedy it also highlights the importance of following one's dream as the character Danny ultimately opens his own 'joint' and only then can he commit to the woman of his dreams. It is a must see for any single successful guy or any woman who wishes to glimpse ever so slightly into the single guy's mind.
Semper Fi & Agape,
Ed D.
An Old Favorite
posted on 02 Apr 2007This is an old favorite from my college days. I hadn't seen it in a while and watched it the other day and still really enjoyed it. It is a good story about dating and love and the complications that seem to always come with it. Jim Belushi gives excellent balance to Rob Lowe as his brutish crude buddy. This movie is still good and still holds up even today.
A great movie
posted on 02 May 2009This could fall under the category of spoiler as I do explain some scenes, But there's plenty I leave open so that you can watch the movie and know that you'll be surprised by most of it. I did hint at the ending of the movie, But still you have to see it as it's rather sentimental as well.One of the best movies I've seen. Although I'm not a big Rob Lowe fan, He plays a part in this movie that seems very "him". Whereas Demi shows herself as a great actress in this movie. She plays Debbie, A girl who tries to fall in love with a guy after a one night stand. But the best scenes involve Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins. They are the quintessential "pig" and "man hater". Belushi's scenes with Lowe and Perkins are classics. Belushi telling Lowe the best thing that could happen to him would be an "industrial accident" and Belushi telling Perkins that if she didn't have a "certain part of her anatomy between her legs (Sorry, He used the very slang term, So I had to clean it up)" that there would be a bounty on her head are 2 of the funniest lines I've heard in a movie. There is nudity a plenty in the movie of Demi (Before implants) and it is actually almost a "chick flick" in that after the first few times of sex, They actually start making love and fall in love with each other. But unfortunately for Danny, He doesn't realize that he loves Debbie until it's too late, At least till the end of the movie. There is also a great chemistry between Debbie and Joan (Perkins), Especially when Debbie goes off on Joan about her "psychobabble" of hating men. And Joan is funny as a K teacher trying to explain sex to her students. I have seen this movie over 100 times and would recommend it to anyone, And I do whenever I get a chance. So go ahead an watch it.