The Morning After

The Morning After

1986 · 102 min · EN · R · 6.0 (94 votes)
Dir. Sidney Lumet · Starring Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Raúl Juliá, Diane Salinger, Richard Foronjy, Geoffrey Scott · Music Paul Chihara

Last night she drank to forget. Today she woke up to a murder. Is he her last hope or the last man she should trust?

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Failed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening -- and with a dead body in bed next to her. As she tries to piece together the events of the night, Alex cannot totally rely on friends or her estranged husband, Joaquin, for assistance. Only a single ally, loner ex-policeman Turner Kendall, can help her escape her predicament and find the true killer.

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A hazy, disorienting descent into a night of lost memories and mounting dread. This neo-noir thriller plunges you into a gritty, morally ambiguous world where trust is a luxury and every shadow hides a potential threat.

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