Shadow Hours

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]

Shadow Hours
US DVD cover.
Directed by	Isaac H. Eaton
Written by	Isaac H. Eaton
Produced by	Isaac H. Eaton
Starring	Balthazar Getty Peter Weller Rebecca Gayheart
Cinematography	Frank Byers
Music by	Brian Tyler
Production companies	5150 Productions Newmark Films Inc. Seven Arts Productions
Distributed by	Newmark Films Inc. (USA)
Release date	July 17, 2000 (2000-07-17) (Limited)
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]