The Criterion Channel has Alan Metter’s 88-minute black comedy in its current U.S. subscription catalogue. A young man, his date’s dead dog and Randy Quaid’s koan-spouting taxi driver spend one New York night trying to dispose of the body. Criterion calls it a lost indie cousin to After Hours, which is unusually precise programming copy: nocturnal Manhattan, escalating errands, odd strangers and a tone that treats inconvenience as metaphysics.
This is a short evening commitment—strange and comic without asking for emotional excavation. The caveat is the premise’s dead-animal humor and a broad late-1980s performance register. It is included with a Criterion Channel subscription in the United States; availability in the UK catalogue was not verified, so UK viewers should check local availability. Criterion Channel