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Wonderfully offbeat film!

Admirable film.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Shadow Hours demonstrates to all filmmakers that when you're making a motion picture, being fast is a lot like being good. As long as you've got a talented cast and a rapid fire pace that's always plunging forward, that'll cover up a lot of deficiencies in plotting and characterization.Michael Holloway (Balthazar Getty) is a recovering drug addict working the graveyard shift at a gas station in one of the seedier sections of Los Angeles. He wants to stay sober and take care of his pregnant wife Chloe (Rebecca Gayheart), but he feels more and more desperate and trapped. Then one night, a man in a black suit and a black sports car rolls into Michael's life. He says he's a writer named Stuart Chappell (Peter Weller) and he takes a shine to Michael. Stuart offers Michael a job as his assistant, which Michael eventually takes after the menial grind of the gas station gets to be too much for him. Stuart takes Michael on a journey into the night, exposing him to greater and greater depths of human debauchery and depravity until Michael's sobriety, marriage and even life are at risk. While that's going on, there's another ill-defined and poorly executed storyline about a police detective (Peter Greene) investigating a series of murders. This plot thread only exists to facilitate a more explosive and dramatic end to Stuart and Michael's more cerebral tale. It's vaguely explained, tangentially relevant and the actions of the detective don't make a lick of sense.In a lot of ways, Shadow Hours isn't that good a film. Its story is basic and shallow. Its moments of drama are inorganically contrived. Its moral is muddled and confused. It has a lot of characters that don't serve much of a purpose. Yet for all that, it's still fairly entertaining.Much of that is thanks to the blazing speed that writer/director Isaac H. Eaton brings to the tale. His scenes are short and briskly edited with a plentiful helping of visual montages to establish mood and tone, granting Shadow Hours a vitality and appeal that it doesn't entirely deserve. This movie doesn't slow down to establish or explain a whole lot, racing from beginning to end like a flaming jack rabbit running for a pond. That swiftness makes the good parts of the story seem sharper and keeps the bad parts from lingering long enough to be annoying.The other significant positive to this movie are nice performances from characters large and small. Peter Weller is perfect as the wickedly mysterious and tempting Stuart Chappell and also appears to be having a lot of fun with the role. He takes a character that could have been unbearably pretentious and removes all the starch from him with a low-key but precise portrayal that embraces the jumble of the story and turns it into an asset. The script is never clear about certain aspects of Stuart Chappell, unintentionally I believe, and Weller takes that on and believably makes Stuart very human at some moments and quite something else at others.Balthazar Getty is good, though he's never asked to do much more than convey the essential decency in Michael without making him seem like a boy scout. Rebecca Gayheart does everything that can be done with the clichéd girlfriend role. Peter Greene manages to make the police detective seem like a legitimate character until the script leaves him high and dry. Corin Nemec and Brad Dourif also manage to fill up a couple of unnecessary roles with some wit and flair.In addition, Shadow Hours has an appreciable amount of female nudity, more than a hint of sexual perversion and some interesting snippets of dialog about the nature of life and human existence…or at least what passes for it in L.A.All in all, this is a low-budget, independent production that was worth making and worth watching. There are an awful lot of movies that don't reach that fairly low bar, so if you see Shadow Hours sitting on the shelf at your local video store, give it a try. It'll mostly likely be better than renting some other film you've never heard of.

I started watching Shadow Hours one evening on Foxtel (Australia). Pretty soon I realized that I had to watch it all the way through as the suspense regarding the mysterious rich man (Stuart) kept on building. The movie is about a journey of a young man (Holloway) in to the very dark side of city's night life with that mysterious rich man. Holloway was a former drug addict and is supporting his wife pregnant with their first child by working through grave yard shift on a petrol station (yes we call it petrol in Australia :). He gets acquainted with a rich guy who takes him to very strange clubs and places. That sparks a battle of conscious within Holloway and he finally manages to get out of way by following a rather hard way.The movie reminded me of 8mm in which Nicholas Cage goes deep in to the dark and ugly of porn, gambling and some very psycho stuff in pursuit of a missing girl. Shadow Hours also takes us to all these sick places where at first you will not understand that what kind of people would want to go through that sickening lifestyle. But, If you think a bit more that probably you will realize that most of the people who hang around these places and gets abused by people like Stuart are mentally ill and are probably not accepted by the society. By hanging around such places people like Holloway who often are at borderline of sanity can be influenced in a terrible way. Anyway the movie was entertaining and thought provoking and I will recommend it to all people who liked 8mm.

when i first started watching this movie I thought, ughh just another low budget drama film with a bunch of nobody actors. However, it turned out to be a surprisingly great movie... I was seamlessly entertained at the beginning, but gradually began to understand the meaning of the film. It's definitely not a classic, but something that everyone should see at some point in their life. I think it shows a good point in life. I also think that the casting was perfect for this type of film. If there were big name actors/actress' in this movie I don't think I would have liked it as much. It kind of struck me as an independent film. The acting was a little shaky but it has a great plot. Try to catch this movie on HBO late at night, I guarantee you will be glad you saw it.

If you thought the bizarre and errie world of THE CELL was scary and weird, you haven't seen nothing yet. SHADOW HOURS takes the viewer into the dark and seedy world that does exist, in Los Angeles. From night clubs, to tourture clubs, to drugculture, to fight clubs, the viewer doesn't really miss much of what else is dark in the city. Balthazar Getty (who looks similar to Charlie Sheen) is Michael Holloway a man who use to be part of the drug culture and it nearly cost him his life. But everything changed when he met Chloe (Rebecca Gayheart) a girl who made Michael give up his addictive illegal habits and go straight. So Michael works the graveyard shift at a gas station around central Los Angeles. Night after night, people come in, give Michael money, pump gas into their vehicles and then leave. One night Michael takes part of his anger out on a customer, Stuart Chappell (Peter Weller). Stuart pulls up in a nice looking Porsche and wearing a expensive suit. Michael feels guilty about yelling at innocent Stuart who only wanted gas, so he apoligizes to him, and Stuart accepts and wants to take Michael out for a cocktail. However, Stuart isn't innocent, he doesn't want to take Michael out only for a cocktail, and he didn't arrive to only get gas. Stuart shows Michael the underground world of Los Angeles, from strip clubs to places where people watch people getting torture. One good thing about SHADOW HOURS is the look and mood of the film. The picture starts off of fast motion cars speeding on a freeway, with the numbers on a gas pump moving in rapid speed, while music from Moby is being played on the soundtrack. If anyone is going to make a movie that takes place around in Los Angeles, one SHOULD play industrial music, especially by the artist Moby. Michael Mann protrayed Los Angeles to a prefction in his 1995 classic HEAT. As the view saw the scummy and seedy realistic side of Los Angeles, the fast dance tempo of Moby was played on the soundtrack. And SHADOW HOURS does accomplish that in some of it's scenes, which I really enjoyed. However, nothing much could be said for the rest of the film. The plot isn't anything special or new, it's more or less a updated version of the dark figure leading the innocent figure into a dark world. And some of the scenes in the film are not that original, but others (including a sexual torture club) are very disturbing to watch. The only actor who stands out in this film is by Peter Weller. He gives flamboyance to his character of Stuart that you wonder is this man really psychotic, or is he indeed the devil himself. But for the other actors, they pretty much give a paint-by-numbers performance. Getty doesn't really carry the movie, when he should be the leading actor carrying the film, he appears to be a sidekick to the Weller character. Rebecca Gayheart also gives a generic performance as the pregnant wife who stays awake late at night and wonders what her husband is up to. But a decent supporting performances from Brad Dourif as the gas station manager, and a unrecognizeable Frederic Forrest, help give the movie some color. I do see what director Isaac Eaton was trying to say in this film by getting his message across. But it's nothing really new or unique. For a small budget independent film, it does manage to show something promising, but in the end you don't walk out going "wow" it's more of a "ho-hum." ** (out of five)