Happily Ever After Hours

In the wake of my last couple of posts on “After Hours" — let alone the many posts I’ve devoted to the film over the last fifteen years — a regular reader who posts under a wide array of names posed the following questions…

What was the coffee shop where Paul and Marcy met? Who was the punk girl who gave Paul the flyer to Mohawk Night? I mean backstory (casting, what she went on to do etc.) Any real deal NYHC people in the Mohawk This Guy! scene? I bet Davey Gunner from Kraut and/or Doug Holland from Kraut and Cro-Mags were extras.

Okay, let’s dive in and see what we can answer…

What was the coffee shop where Paul and Marcy met?

Okay, I have two theories about this, actually. In terms of the storyline, Paul resides on the Upper East Side, although I don’t believe his exact address is ever revealed. The interior of the coffee shop looks somewhat similar to a former restaurant on Lexington Avenue between 77th and 76th street, although I don’t believe it is still there.

This all said, it also resembles another spot on Park Avenue South (just a few blocks to the north of the building wherein Paul’s character works), but — 35 years after the facts — these locations no longer look as they did in 1985. There’s a shot when Marcy is speaking that you can see a large-paned window behind her that reveals some detail of the street running perpendicular to the avenue the coffee shop is on. I’m projecting, but it looks a bit like East 25th street. Again, though, I do not have the concrete answer to this question.

Who was the punk girl who gave Paul the flyer to Mohawk Night?

That being this fetching young lady …

I cannot honestly say I recognize her, although several bona fide punk folks from the NYHC scene do appear in the film, so she might be more than simply an actress.

Any real deal NYHC people in the Mohawk This Guy! scene?

Funny you should ask, as YES, which I went into great detail about on this old post.

I bet Davey Gunner from Kraut and/or Doug Holland from Kraut and Cro-Mags were extras.

I don’t believe either of those gents were, ALTHOUGH the classic A7 t-shirt Doug Holland sports in the video for Kraut’s “All Twisted” does indeed make a quick cameo.

More about "After Hours" on Flaming Pablum:

SoHoliloquoy (7/16/2007)

 Kiki Bridges Revisited (1/16/2010)

 The Sounds of After Hours (2/26/2010)

 Long After ‘After Hours’ (7/18/2012)

 ‘This Dark, Funny, Paranoid New York Summer Movie’ (6/13/2013)

 Terminal Times for the Emerald Pub (6/20/2015)
Mohawk Night at Club Berlin (6/29/2015)

Somewhere "After" the Rainbow (6/16/2017)

After Hours AOC (4/15/2019)

"Ric Handed Me Back the Cheese" (1/08/2020)

Paul is Dead: Who is the Man in Black at the End of "After Hours"? (7/10/2020)

"After Hours" in Avalon: A Tale of Two T-Shirts (7/11/2020)