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Shadow Hours | |
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Directed by | Isaac H. Eaton |
Written by | Isaac H. Eaton |
Produced by | Isaac H. Eaton |
Starring | |
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] |
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]
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.
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]