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  1. Aug 24, 1990 · After Dark, My Sweet: Directed by James Foley. With Jason Patric, Rocky Giordani, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern. After he escapes from a mental hospital, a former boxer works for a widow. When she asks him to get involved in a kidnapping, he has second thoughts.

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    • Crime, Drama, Mystery
    • James Foley
    • 1990-08-24
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  3. After Dark, My Sweet is a 1990 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by James Foley, and starring Jason Patric, Rachel Ward and Bruce Dern. It is based on the 1955 Jim Thompson novel of the same name.

  4. After escaping from a mental hospital, drifting ex-boxer Kid Collie (Jason Patric) meets an alcoholic widow, Fay (Rachel Ward), who entices him into performing maintenance work at her estate.

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  5. After Dark, My Sweet is a film with a classic noir set-up: a desperate man teams up with a violent drifter and an alcoholic widow to kidnap a rich child. Director James Foley takes this plot and makes the best film that could possibly have been made with an already good premise.

  6. Aug 24, 1990 · After Dark, My Sweet - Metacritic. 1990. R. Avenue Pictures. 1 h 54 m. Summary An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left.

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    • Jason Patric
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  7. James Foley's After Dark, My Sweet is a brisk, entertaining contemporary melodrama about the kind of sleazy characters who populated California crime literature 35 years ago. That's no surprise, since the screenplay, adapted by Robert Redlin and Mr. Foley, is based on Jim Thompson's novel, published in 1955. 60.

  8. Sep 24, 2023 · Overall: 3.5/5. An unusual, one-of-a-kind neo-noir, James Foley’s After Dark, My Sweet offers interesting, offbeat characters enmeshed in a fairly predictable kidnapping plot with quite unpredictable results. The new Kino Lorber Blu-ray release offers the film in its best visual and auditory light.

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