About Last Night...

Making love was easy...being in love difficult.
About Last Night... (1986)
6.3/10
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6.1/10
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6.3/10
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Budget
$8 500 000
Revenue
$38 702 310
Director
Scenario
Denise DeClue
Composer
Miles Goodman
Producer
Stuart Oken
Actors
Photo Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe
Danny Martin
Photo Jim Belushi
Jim Belushi
Bernie Litgo
Photo George DiCenzo
George DiCenzo
Mr. Favio
Photo Robin Thomas
Robin Thomas
Steve Carlson
Donna Gibbons
Alex
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Short description

Danny is a young man in Chicago who spends his nights in bars with his friend Bernie and rarely sees the same woman twice. When he meets Debbie, an advertising graphic designer, what begins as a casual encounter turns into something neither of them expected: by the next morning they both sense there is more between them than attraction, and they soon decide to move in together. Their friends Bernie and Joan doubt the relationship will last, and the couple's own differences, along with the pressures around them, put the arrangement to the test. The film is based on David Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago.

Edward Zwick directed this 1986 release, the first title in his filmography, from a screenplay by Denise DeClue and Tim Kazurinsky. Rob Lowe and Demi Moore play Danny and Debbie, with Jim Belushi as Bernie and Elizabeth Perkins as Joan, heading a credited cast of thirty-two. Made for about nine million dollars, it took in roughly thirty-nine million worldwide, a solid return for a romantic comedy-drama of its size.

On IMDb the film holds a 6.3 out of ten from around nineteen thousand votes, and on TMDB it sits at 6.1 from a much smaller number of ratings. A critics' rating of 6.3 from thirty-one reviews places it close to the audience scores, suggesting a modestly received but enduringly watchable entry in the careers of its two leads.

What's left behind the scenes

  • The film is based on David Mamet's 1974 play, "Sexual Perversity in Chicago." The film was originally supposed to be titled the same, but many major newspapers and television channels categorically refused to advertise the film with such a title.
  • Phoebe Cates auditioned for the role of Debbie, which was eventually played by Demi Moore.
  • According to Rob Lowe, he improvised in the scene where his character breaks up with Demi Moore's character. In particular, Lowe said, "I don't love you anymore," and this phrase caught his partner off guard (they had previously maintained a very close relationship), so the sound of surprise that Moore made was very natural.
  • According to Rob Lowe, he began reading the script sent to him while lying in the bath, intending to quickly skim a couple of pages, but only realized what had happened on page 73, when the water had long gone cold and he knew he would definitely be in the film.
  • Initially, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi were supposed to star in the film. However, John Belushi asked his brother James Belushi for advice, who had previously played a similar role in David Mamet's play. James objected to his participation in the project, explaining that he didn't want the brothers to be compared to each other.

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