Shadow Hours | |
Director: | Isaac H. Eaton |
Producer: | Isaac H. Eaton |
Music: | Brian Tyler |
Cinematography: | Frank Byers |
Studio: | 5150 Productions Newmark Films Inc. Seven Arts Productions |
Distributor: | Newmark Films Inc. (USA) |
Runtime: | 95 min. |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Gross: | $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]