About Last Night is an eighties film based on a David Mamet play called Sexual Perversity in Chicago. It stars a very young (and quite disturbingly pretty) Rob Lowe along with Demi Moore, Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins. It was my absolute favourite film when I was about 14 and I can still recite chunks of it now, even though - until yesterday - I hadn’t seen it for years.
It’s the story of Debbie (Moore) and Danny (Lowe) who meet, sleep together, fall in love and move in together. And then things start going wrong. It’s funny, sexy and cheesy in the way only an 80s movie can be (there are three of those so-bad-they’re-good musical montages beloved of the films of that decade), but it does actually have some interesting things to say about relationships.
Plus Rob Lowe takes his clothes off rather a lot (there’s a shower scene I can remember wearing out the video’s pause button on) and there's even a very early appearance by an almost-unrecognisable Megan Mullally!
If you didn’t see it at the time (and if not, why not?), watch it now. You won’t be sorry.