Director Daniel Brown conducts his short drama much in the vein of Scorsese's underrated gem "After Hours" in which he uses the exploits of a midnight stroll through the city experiencing various exploits with wackos and locals as a form of our character exploring something about themselves. Alison Strycharz gives a very somber and heartfelt performance as the lovelorn Emily, a young girl whose own undoing may be her inability to take a hint and as such becomes a pariah in her own relationship. Confronting her boyfriend one night after an attempt to spend time with him, Emily moves out on her own in to a new city and finds herself incapable of moving on with her life, doing anything to pass the time and wallowing in her own memories with him that may all just be lies she told herself to sleep easily at night. When she learns her boyfriend Jim is allegedly sick, she takes it upon herself to bring him some supplies, but her own trepidation to use the subway keeps her firmly planted in her new neighborhood. While mulling over the complications of her relationship she happens upon a slew of interesting and surreal characters, all of whom surely enough help her realize something about her solid "relationship" that she's just not willing to admit to herself.

A sad and somewhat tragic short drama, "Emily in the A.M." is the ultimate coming of age drama that forces its character to come to grips with their own life and re-assess their relationships that they hold dear with a narrative very much in the vein of "After Hours." I enjoyed what it had to say in the end.