Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

BoomerDT I knew a guy in the late 80's who was a very successful womanizer. As a part of his regular modus operandi for seduction, he would invite his date back to his apartment after dinner, open a bottle of wine and pop "About Last Night" in the VCR. It was evidently the perfect aphrodisiac. But lust would be virtually the only reason I could imagine any guy could sit through this a dozen times or so. Rob and Demi really get annoying rather quickly in this. Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins, playing their best friends, seem as irritated with this relationship as most of us are and deliver the best lines and performances in the film and without them this picture would absolutely bomb. Watching it again, some 30 years after it was released it does have some value as a time capsule of the period, especially having lived in Chicago during the late 70's and partaking occasionally in single bar scene in the Rush & Division Street area.

George Wright I missed this one when it was first released 28 years ago and didn't expect much from a movie that I thought only involved adolescent love and sex. Well, after seeing it, I came to a different conclusion because the movie was an honest story of a young couple (played by Rob Lowe and Demi Moore) who fall in love and decide to live together but cannot make the relationship work. Maybe it was the fact that they made an effort to admit they really cared for each other and tried to get past their youthful egos after the relationship first fell apart. They also tried to work things out with their their best friends who wanted to foil them from being together, in part because the friends (James Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins) did not want to lose them. Lowe and Moore also show the loneliness of life following their relationship as they go to bars making futile efforts to find someone compatible. The script and acting was generally good, particularly Belushi whose character is typical of many young men who like their buddies and pretend to know how to snare women without getting involved with them. Belushi also delivered the best humour. I liked the location of Chicago with the skyscrapers, the elevated trains and the waterfront. it is still a good movie about life in the 1980's as two young people try to make the transition from bachelor life to a successful loving relationship.

statman122 I seriously wonder sometimes if the entire decade of the eighties was a conspiracy to enable the young people of that time to remain children for their entire lives!In addition to the horrible music of the time, we had an entire catalogue of movies just like this one. Strike that, many of them were even WORSE than this one. (Xanadu comes immediately to mind).Demi Moore, who actually became a pretty good actor, "starred" (for lack of a better word) in several of these, including probably the poster child for all of them "St Elmo's Fire". These movies all had one thing in common: They portrayed people living unrealistically "hollywood" type lives, which inspired and already lazy and entitled generation to become even more so. And where are these "children of the eighties" today? Most of them (except for the ones that actually became yuppies, which are almost as detrimental to society) had a kid or three and are now on welfare, still holding their spoiled entitled breaths waiting for the world to be handed to them on a platter!

MartynGryphon Demi Moore plays Debbie, the ad exec in loveless relationship with her boss. Rob Lowe plays Danny, a restaurant supplier in a loveless relationship with....well anyone really.The two meet in a bar after a baseball game and one thing leads to another and they jump into the sack with each other that very night. A casual sex relationship develops between the two for a few weeks until they decide to move in together, but that's when their problems really start.James Belushi & Elizabeth Perkins plays Bernie & Joan, Danny & Debbie's best friends respectively. Belushi is a sexist, misogynist pig and Elizabeth Perkins is an uptight, feminist, man hater. Both think that Danny & Debbie are making a huge mistake and with such conflicting viewpoints, they despise each other but Bernie is Danny's confidant and likewise Joan is Debbie's. They both have separate agenda's to split them up but set about it from very different angles.However, their input is not really needed as it soon becomes apparent to both Danny & Debbie that basing a relationship purely on great sex is no basis at all and that the resulting peer pressure is just the straw being placed atop of the proverbial camel's back.About Last Night is generally pigeonholed as a comedy, but is more correctly a romantic drama with some comic moments attached. Moore & Lowe play their parts really well as the two confused twenty somethings playing house, but it's the scenes that Belushi & Perkins appear in, especially together, that really make the movie a must watch.About Last Night will please the guys because Demi gets her kit off regularly and it will please the girls because not only is it the one of the best '80's chick flicks but Rob gets his kit off too. It also has a great soundtrack to boot.It's about men, women, choices, sex, ambition, moving in, no sex, risk, underwear, friendship, career moves, strategy, commitment, love, fun, breaking up, making up, bedtime, last night...Enjoy!!!