About Last Night... (1986) on Netflix
In Chicago, Danny Martin and Debbie Sullivan meet at a softball game and spend a night together, then try a real relationship while their disapproving friends work against it.
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Plot summary
In Chicago, Danny Martin sells restaurant supplies and shares his womanizing habits with his colleague Bernie. Debbie Sullivan works at an advertising agency and lives with her friend Joan, a kindergarten teacher. Danny and Debbie meet at a softball game and at the bar afterward, then go to his apartment. He calls her the next day and asks for a date, and they begin seeing each other. Debbie has been involved with her boss, Steve Carlson. Danny tells her he wants to leave his job and open his own restaurant. Neither has had a serious relationship before, and Joan and Bernie, who dislike each other, are unhappy about the pairing.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about About Last Night... (1986)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Bill Murray and Nick Nolte were at one point attached to the film, as the lead and the supporting role respectively. A "disastrous meeting" between the two of them caused both to turn the film down.
- The film's screenplay, written by Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue, is an adaptation of the 1974 David Mamet stage play Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
- The film was both critically and commercially successful, and it was remade in 2014 with a predominantly Black cast taking over the lead roles.
- About Last Night marks the screen debuts of Elizabeth Perkins and Catherine Keener, the first film appearance for either actress.
