Shadow Hours
2000 American film
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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]
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| Directed by | Isaac H. Eaton |
| Written by | Isaac H. Eaton |
| Produced by | Isaac H. Eaton |
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| Cinematography | Frank Byers |
| Music by | Brian Tyler |
Production companies | 5150 Productions Newmark Films Inc. Seven Arts Productions |
| Distributed by | Newmark Films Inc. (USA) |
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Running time | 95 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $38,181[1] |
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 Detective Steve Andrianson
- Frederic Forrest as Sean
- Brad Dourif as Roland Montague
- Michael Dorn as Detective 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]