1986 · thriller · mystery · noir
The Morning After
Directed by Sidney Lumet1h 42m1986
Failed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening -- and with a dead body in bed next to her. As she tries to piece together the events of the night, Alex cannot totally rely on friends or her estranged husband, Joaquin, for assistance. Only a single ally, loner ex-policeman Turner Kendall, can help her escape her predicament and find the true killer.
Our read: The Morning After (1986) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · mystery · noir entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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- intense
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