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 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. 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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