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About Last Night... is a comedy-drama
Comedy-drama

Comedy-drama, also called dramedy, dramatic comedy, or seriocomedy, is a style of television and film in which there is an equal or nearly equal balance of humor and serious content....
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 released in 1986
1986 in film

Events*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle*Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver....
. The film was directed by Edward Zwick
Edward Zwick

Edward Zwick is an United States film director and film producer noted for his sprawling war films. He received an A.B from Harvard in 1974. He attended the AFI Conservatory and graduated with an M.F.A....
, and stars Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe

Robert Hepler Lowe is an United States actor. He became famous after appearing in popular 1980s movies such as The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire , which included other members of the Brat Pack ....
, Demi Moore
Demi Moore

Demetria Gene "Demi" Moore Kutcher is an American actress. She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood....
, and James Belushi
James Belushi

James Adam "Jim" Belushi is an United States actor, comedian and musician, best known for being the younger brother of late comedian John Belushi....
. It is based on the 1974 David Mamet
David Mamet

David Alan Mamet is an United Statesn author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue and arcane stylized phrasing, as well as for his exploration of masculinity....
 play Sexual Perversity in Chicago
Sexual Perversity in Chicago

Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a one-act play by David Mamet. It examines the lives of two men and two women in the dating pool in Chicago....
. The film is rated R
MPAA film rating system

The Motion Picture Association of America's film-rating system is used in the United States and its Territories of the United States to rate a film's thematic and content suitability for certain audiences....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 for strong language, nudity, sexual content, and brief drug use.

Tagline: It's about men, women, choices, friendship, love, last night...

y and Bernard are two single men who live in Chicago.






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About Last Night... is a comedy-drama
Comedy-drama

Comedy-drama, also called dramedy, dramatic comedy, or seriocomedy, is a style of television and film in which there is an equal or nearly equal balance of humor and serious content....
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 released in 1986
1986 in film

Events*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle*Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver....
. The film was directed by Edward Zwick
Edward Zwick

Edward Zwick is an United States film director and film producer noted for his sprawling war films. He received an A.B from Harvard in 1974. He attended the AFI Conservatory and graduated with an M.F.A....
, and stars Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe

Robert Hepler Lowe is an United States actor. He became famous after appearing in popular 1980s movies such as The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire , which included other members of the Brat Pack ....
, Demi Moore
Demi Moore

Demetria Gene "Demi" Moore Kutcher is an American actress. She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood....
, and James Belushi
James Belushi

James Adam "Jim" Belushi is an United States actor, comedian and musician, best known for being the younger brother of late comedian John Belushi....
. It is based on the 1974 David Mamet
David Mamet

David Alan Mamet is an United Statesn author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue and arcane stylized phrasing, as well as for his exploration of masculinity....
 play Sexual Perversity in Chicago
Sexual Perversity in Chicago

Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a one-act play by David Mamet. It examines the lives of two men and two women in the dating pool in Chicago....
. The film is rated R
MPAA film rating system

The Motion Picture Association of America's film-rating system is used in the United States and its Territories of the United States to rate a film's thematic and content suitability for certain audiences....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 for strong language, nudity, sexual content, and brief drug use.

Tagline: It's about men, women, choices, friendship, love, last night...

Plot

Danny and Bernard are two single men who live in Chicago. When Danny meets Debbie at a bar in Elk Grove Village, the two start a relationship from a one night stand. Danny's life then takes a different turn, and he has problems committing to his life with Debbie, who realizes his phobia with the help of her friend Joan. The film follows the couple from the beginning of their relationship to its end.

Cast

  • Rob Lowe
    Rob Lowe

    Robert Hepler Lowe is an United States actor. He became famous after appearing in popular 1980s movies such as The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire , which included other members of the Brat Pack ....
     as Danny
  • Demi Moore
    Demi Moore

    Demetria Gene "Demi" Moore Kutcher is an American actress. She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood....
     as Debbie
  • James Belushi
    James Belushi

    James Adam "Jim" Belushi is an United States actor, comedian and musician, best known for being the younger brother of late comedian John Belushi....
     as Bernie
  • Elizabeth Perkins
    Elizabeth Perkins

    Elizabeth Perkins is an Emmy- and Golden Globe award-nominated United States film, television and theater actress....
     as Joan
  • George DiCenzo
    George DiCenzo

    George Ralph DiCenzo is an American character actor and once associate producer for Dark Shadows....
     as Mr. Favio
  • Robin Thomas
    Robin Thomas

    Robin Thomas is an United States film and television actor.He was born Robin Thomas Grossman in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His best-known television roles are as Mark Singleton in the soap opera Another World , and as Geoffrey Wells on the 1980s series Who's the Boss?....
     as Steve Carlson
  • Megan Mullally
    Megan Mullally

    Megan Mullally is an American actress, talk show host and singer.After working in theatre in Chicago, Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1981, and appeared in small or supporting roles in film and television productions....
     as Pat
  • Rosanna DeSoto
    Rosanna DeSoto

    Rosanna DeSoto is an United States actor who has starred in film and in television she comes from a Mexican family, her parents are from Curimeo, Michoacan Mexico she is the second well known person from this town the first being retired football player Tony Zendejas....
     as Mrs. Lyons (as Rosana De Soto)
  • Tim Kazurinsky
    Tim Kazurinsky

    Tim Kazurinsky is an American comedian best known for performances on the NBC show Saturday Night Live. Typically his characters were mousey, sheepish types....
     as Colin
  • Kevin Bourland as Ira
  • Catherine Keener
    Catherine Keener

    Catherine Ann Keener is a two time Academy Awards and Emmy-nominated United States actress....
     as Cocktail Waitress


Soundtrack

  1. "So Far, So Good" - Sheena Easton
  2. "(She's the) Shape of Things to Come" - John Oates
  3. "Natural Love" - Sheena Easton
  4. "Words into Action" - Jermaine Jackson
  5. "Step by Step" - J.D. Souther
  6. "Living Inside My Heart" - Bob Seger
  7. "Trials of the Heart" - Nancy Shanks
  8. "til You Love Somebody" - Michael Henderson
  9. "If We Can Get Through the Night" - Paul Davis
  10. "True Love" - Del Lords
  11. "If Anybody Had a Heart" - John Waite


Crew

  • Richard James Burgess
    Richard James Burgess

    Richard James Burgess is a recording studio drummer, music-computer programmer, recording artist, record producer, composer, author, manager, marketer and inventor....
     - Producer
  • David Cole
    David Cole (producer)

    David B. Cole was a record producer. He was also a half of dance group C+C Music Factory .Robert Clivill?s and David Cole also produced various hits for other artists such as Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Deborah Cooper, and many others....
     - Producer
  • Paul Davis - Vocals, Producer, Performer
  • The Del Lords - Performer
  • Craig Doerge
    Craig Doerge

    is an American keyboard player, songwriter and session musician.He began playing in a college band at Hartford, Connecticut, and then moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s to work as a studio player and songwriter with A&M Records, and with Jim Keltner and others playing on cartoon soundtracks....
     - Producer
  • Sheena Easton
    Sheena Easton

    Sheena Shirley Orr, better known by her stage name, Sheena Easton is a Scotland singer and actress. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the United Kingdom television program The Big Time , which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract, and got her a deal with EMI....
     - Vocals, Performer
  • Neil Geraldo - Producer
  • Michael Henderson
    Michael Henderson

    Michael Henderson is a bass guitarist and vocalist best known for his work with Miles Davis in the early 1970s, providing a deep funky groove to early Jazz fusion albums such as A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Pangaea , and Live-Evil....
     - Vocals, Producer, Performer
  • Don Henley
    Don Henley

    Donald Hugh " Don " Henley is an United States rock music singing, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful Grammy Award-winning solo career....
     - Producer
  • Bones Howe
    Bones Howe

    Dayton Burr "Bones" Howe is a Grammy-award-winning record producer and recording engineer associated with 1960s and 1970s hits, mostly of the sunshine pop genre, including most of the hits of The Fifth Dimension and The Association, as well as music supervision of several films....
     - Music Supervisor
  • Rick Iantosca - Programming, Various, Producer
  • Jermaine Jackson
    Jermaine Jackson

    Jermaine LaJaune Jackson or Muhammad Abdul Aziz , is an United States Grammy Award-nominated singer, bass guitarist, former member of The Jackson 5 and older brother of United States Pop music stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson....
     - Vocals, Performer
  • Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar - Producer
  • Dennis Lambert - Producer
  • Bob Marlette - Producer
  • Leslie Morris
    Leslie Morris

    Leslie Tim Morris was a Wales-Canada politician, journalist and long time member of the Communist Party of Canada and, its front group, the Labour Progressive Party....
     - Music Coordinator
  • John Oates
    John Oates

    John William Oates is an United States musician and record producer best known as the mustachioed half of the successful Rock music and Soul music duo Hall & Oates....
     - Composer, Producer, Performer
  • Michael Omartian
    Michael Omartian

    Michael Omartian is an Armenian-American songwriter, Grammy Award-winning keyboardist, and music producer. He has produced albums for several pop music artists including Christopher Cross, Michael Bolton, Whitney Houston, the Jacksons, Rod Stewart, Trisha Yearwood, Clint Black, Donna Summer, Joe Esposito , Peter Cetera, Benny Hester, Steve C...
     - Producer
  • Neil Portnow
    Neil Portnow

    Neil R. Portnow is the current president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Portnow was formerly the vice-president of the West Coast division of Jive Records....
     - Executive Supervision
  • Bob Seger
    Bob Seger

    Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.After years of local Detroit-area success, recording and performing in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved superstar status by the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band....
     - Vocals, Producer, Performer
  • Nancy Shanks
    Nancy Shanks

    Nancy Shanks is an American singer who is almost exclusively associated with singer Tori Amos. Nancy recorded her first solo album in 1973 on United Artist Records....
     - Vocals, Performer
  • J.D. Souther - Vocals, Producer, Performer
  • John Waite
    John Waite

    John Waite is a rock music singer. He was the lead vocalist for the band The Babys and Bad English. As a solo artist, he scored a #1 hit in the United States with Missing You in 1984....
     - Vocals, Performer
  • Narada Michael Walden
    Narada Michael Walden

    Narada Michael Walden is an United States Record producer, drummer, singing, and songwriter. He was given the name Narada by guru Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970s and his musical career spans three decades, in which he was awarded several gold, platinum and music recording sales certification awards....
     - Producer
  • John Waite
    John Waite

    John Waite is a rock music singer. He was the lead vocalist for the band The Babys and Bad English. As a solo artist, he scored a #1 hit in the United States with Missing You in 1984....
     - Vocals


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