Not a big hit but it made a profit at a time when Scorsese needed to show he could do that. The film is iconic in a way - say After Hours type adventures and people get what you mean.
Griffin Dunne is negaging and low key handsome as the lead - I'm surprised he didn't do more films as star, or maybe he did and I just didn't hear of them.
Dunne runs into a series of nutty women - topless sculptor Linda Fiorentino, well read burns victim Rosanna Arquette, lonely waitress Terri Garr, ice cream ventor Catherine O'Hara, lonely Verna Bloom - and some less odd men - bartender John Heard, gay dude,Cheech and Chong (in separate roles), door bitch to a punk club. Other people pop up in it like Bronson Pinchot.
The script is circular but quite clever in its set up and pay off.
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