Late Last Night

Entertainment attorney Dan (Emilio Estevez), his marriage apparently over, storms out of his Beverly Hills home, thus giving his wife a chance to load her belongings into a hired U-haul and leave him.He forgets his car keys. First mistake in a town where no one walks. Dan isn`t street-smart:leaving the safe cocoon of his marital home and the relative security of his Mercedes behind, it soon strikes him that LA, all the more poignant as it`s the Holiday Season, can be a very lonely place.All his pre-married-life pals have moved on..afterall he didn`t need them until now. The only one available is Jeff (Steven Weber), a super cool night creature who takes desolate Dan for a night on the town that he`ll never forget and turns out to be a decidely off-white knight in shining armour. LATE LAST NIGHT is a very bizarre tale, yet at the same time strangely captivating, unnerving and spellbinding. The crazy world of Hollywood after dark, barely stands still and Dan is whisked through an increasingly outlandish world where anything goes. The constant changes of pace and scene are important, making the audience as disoriented as Dan. Encounters with transvestite hookers, coke whore strippers, drug dealers and dopers might be a normal night out for Jeff, but not so for Dan, who has problems `fitting in.` As the all too laid back and mysterious Jeff, Steven Weber is excellent. His character is a total contrast to Dan, who is at one time rather unkindly described as `nerdy`. Jeff makes all the right moves and says all the right things and Weber plays him with sardonic confidence. However it is Dan to whom we want to reach out, give a protective hug and send him swiftly back to his wife. We desperately need him to see that this underworld of booze, drugs and whores, where the word relationship doesn`t exist is not where he will find the answers to his problems. Even Jeff, who seemingly has no job and has never had a lasting relationship to speak of, is envious: in reality he craves what Dan is in danger of throwing away. The need for love as opposed to sex, is cleverly played out in the music, especially when Jeff and some party people burst into a rendition of Queen`s `I need somebody to love...` This is a highly memorable scene and we are left wondering if this really is Dan`s marijuana initiated hallucination or can Jeff be letting out his innermost feelings? Emilio Estevez steals the sympathy because he makes us feel Dan`s confusion, pain and loneliness. We can identify with his faults: he works too hard to maintain a lifestyle at the high cost of neglecting his marital relationship. That`s why in her parting note, his wife tells him she doesn`t know him any more and it`s a sad fact of 90`s materialism. Probably the most underrated actor in Hollywood, Estevez is always at his best when his characters, like Dan, have an excess of nervous energy to expend. Often they find themselves in situations beyond their control -remember Andy in The Breakfast Club, so cautious and quiet until he cleanses himself of his guilty detention secret, or the wary punk, Otto in Repo Man ? As the over zealous Billy in Young Guns he excelled, forcing us to truly loathe ourselves for rooting for him and lately as the edgy, disturbed Vietnam Vet, Jeremy in the War at Home, we know virtually from the first scene that this young man is a walking time bomb.

Late last Night carries the audience along in a surreal haze of drugs and sleaze where everyone does what they want, with whom they want. As for Jeff, I am not entirely convinced of his existence. Was he really Dan`s alter ego as suggested by the police shrink ? Or even his Guardian Angel sent to show Dan that a loving, secure relationship is not worth trading for a lifetime of loneliness. Dan finally realises that what he wants is back in Beverly Hills loading a U-haul and he has to stop her. We can only surmise to where Jeff has returned. Fairy Tales are meant to have happy endings, but this time we are left to draw our own conclusions as to whether Dan gets a second chance. Give this movie ago the next time its shown , or when it comes out on video. It has it`s faults, but is better than some theatre releases I`ve paid to see latly. The performances are great and Steven Brill`s gratifyingly different story and direction are spot on. It`s well worth a night in with a few drinks lined up...to soak up the atmosphere !

Late Last Night is an insane movie. I rented it looking for a fresh movie that I hadn't seen before.. the cover looked played out, but light; unlike some of the more dramatic movies I'd seen lately.

I needed a change.. and a change I got.

When Dan comes out of the door at the start.. his face, and his breathing.. really intense.. I could just feel his mix of anger, pain and shock. I started waiting for something to happen.. anything.. finally, he walks off, kicks over his lawn decor and walks off, while some happy music plays -- the music was so off-colour that I could tell I was in for a strange ride..

Strange indeed.. as soon as he gets out of his lawn, a small kid nearly runs him over on a three-wheeler.. Dan seems to pause as he thinks about the kid.... about how he had maybe thought of having his own with the girl who is now leaving him... There are a lot of these "What-If" flashbacks throughout the movie that you start to catch on to.

After several walk-ins with self-important police and such, he lands himself at a bar.. meets some drunks who just aren't matching his mindset, and driving him mad with their drunken antics, causing him to ditch the bar to call a friend.. someone. He eventually reaches Jeff.. .apparently a very last resort, as he has tried to call his parents before this Jeff person.

Jeff is wild, Jeff is crazy... Smokes pot, pops pills, drinks like a madman, pays whores with coke and "borrows" cars. He's the black of Dan's white.

Dan is close to getting laid several times in the movie but mostly falls short.. on his own, or because of insane circumstances. I found the movie ironic, hilarious, aggravating, inspiring, sad, happy.. anything but dull and boring. There's this huge theme of 70s music throughout the show that I didn't quite understand.. but it was very coloured.

One unforgettable moment is when Dan, still high and on other drugs and alcohol, is in the back of a cop car.. after the cops joke around about beating him senseless, they tell Dan they're kidding and he both laughs and screams in angst -- isn't that indicative of life sometimes?

I highly (HIGHly) recommend watching it.. once while wasted,once while clean. It will open your eyes and massage your senses.

Damacus.. 10 of 10

I bought this movie because I am slightly obsessed with Wings, one of the best sitcoms ever, starring Steven Weber. This movie, out of all of his others, is the best. This is just a dark and gritty, very well directed movie, set in Hollywoood, about typical latenight fun between two guys looking for trouble...set in one of my favorite settings for a movie, California! I'm from NJ. There is just something special about the doings of "normal" non-famous people in Hollywood. The grittiness seems almost surreal next to all the glamor we imagine. I often daydream about being a bartender in a dive Hollywood bar...for the rest of my life...call me crazy. GREAT MOVIE!!!

Dan (Emilio Estevez) is a entertainment lawyer that is his wife (Kelly Rowan) left him for a better life. Dan decides to re-examining his life and finding himself. Dan gets together with a mysterious friend:Jeff (Steven Weber) is a smooth, fast-talking buddy will anything for Dan to have a good time.

Since Dan has one hell of a time in bars, clubs, high maintenances call girls and others things in this unforgettable night. But Dan mixes his life with fantasy, reality and everything in between. It's possible that Dan might find what's missing in his so-called life.

Written and Directed by Steven Brill (Heavyweights, Little Nicky, Mr. Deeds) made an amusing comedy with dramatic scenes and moments of truth. Although the film is never as satisfying as you'd like to be. Estevez is good in one of his few rare "adult" roles. Weber is excellent as Dan's mysterious friend. This film was first seen in Cable TV. (*** ½/*****).

This is a really great film, and it's kind of shocking, it being a straight to video release (tho its actual first release was on Starz!=.) The film stars emilio as a man who is in the middle of having his wife leave him, and he turns to anyone he can find. After calling up a number of old friends, he gets in touch with Jeff who takes him out on the town. The story is well drawn out, and it never gets boring. I love the nighttime scenes, and the photography in this movie is gorgeous. Thru the night, they meet drugged up hookers and spend time with them, they spend time at a very weird party, they golf in the middle of the night, and emilio's character gets arrested. It's a wild movie, and the tone keeps changing. One second they're at a crazy party, and the next they're discussing philosophical things while playing golf under a star filled sky. It works really well, and the changing tones is a big reason this movie is so great. It's hard to explain, but for me, it's one of those movies that mix tone and the beautiful night scenes and music together so well it gives you this weird feeling of peace. Maybe I'm losing it, but I always feel somewhat peaceful when I watch this movie. It doesn't get much better than this. 10/10