Afternoon Delight (2013)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 54
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 22
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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 7
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.6/5
User Ratings: 1,540
Movie Info
AFTERNOON DELIGHT is the story of Rachel, a stay-at-home mom who becomes obsessed with saving a stripper named McKenna. It's nine am. You've just dropped your kid off at school. Pick-up is at four. No one knows where you are, and no one needs you. So what now? Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable, yet tightly coiled, thirty-something steeped in the creative class of Los Angeles's bohemian, affluent Silver Lake neighborhood. Everything looks just right-chic modernist home, successful husband,
Cast
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Juno Temple
McKenna -
Kathryn Hahn
Rachel -
Josh Radnor
Jeff -
Jane Lynch
Dr. Lenore -
Jessica St. Clair
Stephanie -
Michaela Watkins
Jennie -
Josh Stamberg
Matt -
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Annie Mumolo
Amanda -
John Kapelos
Jack -
Noah Harpster
Craig -
Suzy Nakamura
Meredith -
Eugene Cordero
Bobby -
Link Ruiz
Car Wash Attendant 1 -
Cesar Garcia
Car Wash Attendant 2 -
Sawyer Ever
Logan -
Makenna Cotton
Ella -
Javier Calderon
Doorman -
Ozioma Akagha
Barista -
Bryan Lugo
Tow Truck Driver -
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Marshall Manesh (II)
Taxi Driver -
Tucker
Bonnet the Dog -
The Baroness
Herself -
Joanne Basile
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Inga Bespalovaite
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Julie Bolene
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Nicole Brock
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Antonia Crane
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Mariela Iv
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Lauren Kaplow
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Rie Katagiri
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Violet Lake
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Luz Pazos
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Marie-Pier
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Uzuiri Simms
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All Critics (54) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (22)
The story doesn't hold together, but Hahn and Temple are terrific.
Top CriticThe results are a little life lesson-y but well-observed.
The entire film is good but the revelation here is Hahn, reliably one of the funniest women in Hollywood, now suddenly given a rich, complex and even sexy role.
It's refreshing to hear dialogue that's natural and modern and doesn't try to pontificate. And the rewards are many.
"Afternoon Delight" puts the typical suburban mother's lifestyle under an uncomfortably honest microscope, then documents the sporadically funny and occasionally sad results.
A couple's marriage is edging toward collapse when they try to reboot their dormant sex life in this sly, hip, and rewarding comedy of manners.
this is a role-swap dramedy, wherein two very different walks of life are brought under the same roof in a social experiment that sees generations gel, classes clash, and sexualities merge... too coarse and cruel to be dismissed as frothy romcom.
We've heard the protagonist's gripes before. But actress Kathryn Hahn is so enthralling and right that Rachel's poor little rich girl suffering feels harsh and real.
Feels rather 'been there, done that' for a movie that keeps (idly, as it turns out) threatening to turn transgressive. Still, by putting utility player Hahn front and center, Soloway earns instant good will.
Afternoon Delight has many small pleasures but falls far short of reaching the G spot.
It's not exactly skyrockets in flight, but you still might want to get yourself some 'Afternoon Delight.' It will curl your toes and straighten your outlook on sex and the married woman in a pleasurable and often erotic way.
Does not make for an evening's pleasure.
Writer-director Jill Soloway's uneven but ultimately fascinating drama.
What starts out light and airy - certainly, there's something funny about a suburban soccer mom trying to save a stripper from herself - devolves into something very dark.
Wised-up Afternoon Delight is part of the new breed of chick-flick, and it's worth a look.
Afternoon Delight captures a snapshot of young, affluent white women with remarkable accuracy and decisive detail.
AFTERNOON DELIGHT is a raw character study that is anchored by a career-defining, dramatic performance from comedic actress Kathryn Hahn.
Funny and trenchant, it isn't a shapely farce. It's a comedy of confusion that dares to be unlikable -- and somehow, that makes it more lovable.
An unhappy suburban wife and mother seeks to move her life into turn-around through sexual pleasure.
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