A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Fonda and this film both look good, she as a haggard, fas been alcoholic, and sunny Los Angeles nicely photographed. Bridges also gives a solid performance in this story that starts off on good fitting but gradually grows thinner as it progresses. The final disappointment is the films weak ending. If you love Fonda and/or Bridges you might still enjoy this film, but for others I wouldn't go out of my way and seek it out.

TMA is definitely for fans who love Jane Fonda, and want to see her strut her stuff, where she's in top form, truly believable as an alcoholic ex actress, displaying a real range of emotions, all done so believably. She's wound up sleeping next to a very much dead guy, a knife sticking out of his belly. For very much of the movie, she's trying to piece together, what happened the night before, as her inebriation has of course, annihilated her memory of the goings on, where we learned she attended a Hollywood party, the night before. This dead body keeps popping up, where someone's obviously trying to frame her. She meets a cop, Turner Kendall (great name played well by Jeff Bridges) that has us very much suspecting him. He's always around where she is, and his car keeps conking out. TMA isn't a good thriller. There's a real weakness throughout the film, as really there's not much plotting, where you don't have to be a genius to see how this film unfolds. Jeff Bridge's other short running pic, the earlier 8 Million Ways To Die had much more going for it. Raul Julia is almost wasted really as Fonda's good friend, with a little bit of menace to his character, a homosexual. He tries to help Fonda a bit, trying to stray the Bridges character away from her. Really, connect the dots. The opening music score, after the bloody start, is kind of a drone but does work with that moment, with Fonda, strolling out into the L.A sun, after taking off from that bloody sight. Bridge's ex cop character is fun to watch, very much cause he's real, He has flaws, and too, is not normally like the tough guy he usually plays. Just compare him here to his character in 8 Million Ways To Die, which hit the screen three months earlier than this. The bloody climax is less than impressive if only for the exaggerated and unreal gore. TMA, despite a good concept, is really is a weak written film that could of been a whole lot better if the writers, weren't hanging about in Lazyville, which like other films, is typically the main fault here, yet it's a real colorfully entertaining film, which we owe greatly to it's topline actors. Too, it's worth the viewing to see a great actress, doing a great acting piece.

"The Morning After" is a very strange movie, mainly because it seems like two completely different movies put together. On one hand, it's a murder mystery with a chief suspect on the run attempting to prove her innocence. On the other hand, it's also a study of two completely different people thrust together and developing some sort of relationship. To tell the truth, I would have preferred if the movie had completely stuck to the second kind of story. The murder mystery is standard stuff at best, right down to the climatic man to man struggle. But I did find the relationship between the characters played by Fonda and Bridges to be interesting. Both characters are interestingly written, and the performances by both actors help considerably to sell these fictional characters. While the murder mystery angle of the movie is not that well done - making this portion of the movie tired and familiar - the parts of the movie that focus on the Fonda and Bridges characters interacting are good enough that the movie despite its flaws is worth a look.

"The Morning After" is a murder mystery that features romance, blackmail and suspense but it's the relationship between the story's two leading characters that provides the main focus of the action and also most of the humour and interest that make this movie so enjoyable to watch. Its opening scene is really intriguing and sets the story up brilliantly. What follows is loosely based on "The Blue Gardenia" (1953) and like its predecessor, this movie features a woman who was with a murder victim on the night he died, awakens the next morning unable to remember what happened and then has to put her trust in someone of whom she's not certain.Alex Sternbergen (Jane Fonda) is an alcoholic ex-actress who wakes up in a strange bed next to the corpse of a man she doesn't know and has no memory of how she got there. She's immediately convinced that the police won't believe her story because she has a history of becoming violent and suffering blackouts after her drinking binges and had even stabbed her first husband with a paring knife during one of her blackouts. In her panic, Alex heads to the airport but can't get out of L.A. because it's the Thanksgiving holiday and all the flights are booked. Feeling desperate and anxious, she gets involved in a car accident and races away from the scene into a nearby parking lot where she meets Turner Kendall (Jeff Bridges).In her efforts to escape the other irate drivers involved in the car accident, Alex gets into Turner's car and together they drive away from her pursuers. Turner's an easy-going, bigoted, ex-cop who says "I like to repair stuff, whatever people are through with" and works mainly on small appliances like toasters. Turner and Alex gradually get to know each other and fall in love. She doesn't know whether or not she was responsible for the dead man's murder and he tries to help her to solve the mystery. The problem is she isn't sure whether or not she can trust him, especially as her estranged husband Joaquin "Jacky" Manero (Raul Julia), who's a very successful hairdresser in Beverly Hills, warns her that Turner is actually trying to frame her. Alex and Turner stick together and eventually discover who the murderer is and also the extent to which blackmail was involved in the crime."The Morning After" makes a strong impression visually with good use being made of interesting locations and a colour palette that uses a range of pastels quite effectively. The scene in which Alex escapes from the apartment where the killing had taken place is particularly memorable because at a time when she's feeling desperate and scared, being situated in a highly lit, deserted-looking street in which she's dwarfed by the structures around her, really emphasises her plight and reinforces the impression that, in these very open surroundings, there really is no hiding place.Jane Fonda and Jeff Bridges are both exceptional in this movie and the chemistry between them is the icing on the cake. Fonda (in an Oscar nominated role) makes Alex's combination of toughness, vulnerability and self-doubt totally believable and Bridges is wonderfully subtle in a performance that creates a lot of distrust about how sincere he is in his concern for Alex's predicament. The dialogue they share is also superb and some of Alex's cutting remarks really sting.There's a great deal to enjoy in "The Morning After" and the whole experience of watching it is extremely entertaining. Its only disappointment, however, is the resolution to the mystery which, unfortunately, isn't up to the standard of everything else that precedes it.