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  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary Gifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams and a lifelong interest in the paranormal, Sheila (Marin Ireland) is asked to investigate a potential haunting at a Tennessee farmhouse. It’s there she meets Richard (Jim Gaffigan), a recent widower who believes his wife may still be with him. The investigation that ensues — which eventually pulls i...

Directed By: Paul Harrill

Written By: Paul Harrill

  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 23 m

Light From Light

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
80
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
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Summary Gifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams and a lifelong interest in the paranormal, Sheila (Marin Ireland) is asked to investigate a potential haunting at a Tennessee farmhouse. It’s there she meets Richard (Jim Gaffigan), a recent widower who believes his wife may still be with him. The investigation that ensues — which eventually pulls i...

Directed By: Paul Harrill

Written By: Paul Harrill

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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7% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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7% Mixed
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91
Feb 1, 2019
Light from Light is a quiet and modest film with big subjects on its mind and it will reward those viewers with the patience to listen to the faint wavelengths at the end of the dial.
By Joe Blessing FULL REVIEW
90
Nov 7, 2019
Harrill is awfully good at ambivalence, at teasing out the feelings of people who are uncertain what they want and in no hurry to talk about it — a condition that afflicts more characters than we often see in American movies, independent or otherwise.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
83
Feb 1, 2019
Those going into Paul Harrill’s second feature looking for frights will be rewarded with something more substantial: an experience rich with atmosphere and humanity, and drama ultimately more enlightening than the cheap thrills that pervade the dime-a-dozen ghost stories we’ve seen before.
By Jordan Raup FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 1, 2019
Harrill, who wrote and directed the film, isn’t as interested in the supernatural elements in the film as he is with the story’s few players. There’s a lot of room for emotions to breathe and wash over its characters, but never does it tip over into excess.
By Monica Castillo FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 29, 2019
Only in focusing so thoroughly on the normal does Paul Harrill’s film stumble upon the paranormal.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW
63
Nov 26, 2019
Writer-director Paul Harrill stages a gripping early investigation sequence—in which Shelia wanders the home alone at night, asking any supernatural presence to make itself known—but otherwise the film largely consists of long conversation scenes that verge on the inert.
By Josh Larsen FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 4, 2019
Unfortunately, it turns to be duller and infinitely more stagnant than most Hollywood dreck. But it is partially saved by very good actors who struggle valiantly to make it less monotonous than it is.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Sailor Bear, Ley Line Entertainment, Ten Acre Films
Release Date Nov 1, 2019
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Chlotrudis Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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