Shadow Hours

2000 American film
  • Balthazar Getty
  • Peter Weller
  • Rebecca Gayheart
CinematographyFrank ByersMusic byBrian Tyler
Production
companies
5150 Productions
Newmark Films Inc.
Seven Arts Productions
Distributed byNewmark Films Inc. (USA)
Release date
  • July 17, 2000 (2000-07-17) (Limited)
Running time
95 min.CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBox office$38,181[1]

Shadow Hours is a 2000 American thriller directed, written and produced by Isaac H. Eaton. It premiered in competition during the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.[2]

Plot

Michael Holloway is a recovering addict working as a gas station attendant to support his pregnant wife, Chloe. He is then drawn into the seedy underworld of Los Angeles by Stuart, a mysterious and wealthy stranger.

Cast

  • Balthazar Getty as Michael Holloway
  • Peter Weller as Stuart Chappell
  • Rebecca Gayheart as Chloe Holloway
  • Peter Greene as Det. Steve Andrianson
  • Frederic Forrest as Sean
  • Brad Dourif as Roland Montague
  • Michael Dorn as Det. Thomas Greenwood

Reception

Shadow Hours received mixed to negative reviews. The film holds a 14% approval rating on the review aggregator website, Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 2.7/10 based on an aggregation of 14 reviews.[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted mean, assigned a score of 26 out of 100, based on reviews from 13 film critics.[4] Lawrence Van Gelder of The New York Times wrote that "Rarely has debauchery been such a bore",[5] whereas Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide had a less harsh opinion, calling the movie "a very entertaining, if thoroughly silly, morality tale" and giving it four out of five stars.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Shadow Hours (2000)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
  2. ^ "Shadow Hours". Sundance Institute. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
  3. ^ "Shadow Hours (2000)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
  4. ^ "Shadow Hours Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
  5. ^ "Shadow Hours - FILM REVIEW; Night Crawlers, Beware: You Could Lose Your Soul". The New York Times. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
  6. ^ "Shadow Hours: Review". TV Guide. Retrieved June 7, 2013.

External links

  • Shadow Hours at AllMovie
  • Shadow Hours at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata