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Shadow Hours
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Wikipedia article
'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.
Plot
Michael Holloway (Balthazar Getty) is a recovering addict working as a gas station attendant to support his pregnant wife, Chloe (Rebecca Gayheart). He is then drawn into the seedy underworld of Los Angeles by Stuart (Peter Weller), 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. Metacritic, which uses a weighted mean, assigned a score of 26 out of 100, based on reviews from 13 film critics. Lawrence Van Gelder of 'The New York Times' wrote that "Rarely has debauchery been such a bore", 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.
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