The Evening Hour

Name: The Evening Hour
Genre: Drama
Released: July 30, 2021
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Cosmo Jarvis, Hannah Barefoot, Jayson Warner Smith, Kerry Bishé, Lili Taylor

2021

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: July 30, 2021

Starring: Cosmo Jarvis, Hannah Barefoot, Jayson Warner Smith, Kerry Bishé, Lili Taylor, Marc Menchaca, Michael Trotter, Philip Ettinger, Ross Partridge, Stacy Martin, Tess Harper, Tony Demil

Summary: Cole Freeman (Philip Ettinger) maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his declining Appalachian mining town, looking The autumnal mountains of southern Appalachia hold a haunting power within which Cole Freeman (Philip Ettinger), maintains an uneasy equilibrium, looking after the old and infirm in the community while selling their excessCole Freeman (Philip Ettinger) maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his declining Appalachian mining town, looking The autumnal mountains of southern Appalachia hold a haunting power within which Cole Freeman (Philip Ettinger), maintains an uneasy equilibrium, looking after the old and infirm in the community while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts to help make ends meet. But when an old friend, Terry Rose (Cosmo Jarvis), returns with dangerous new plans that threaten the fragile balance Cole has crafted amidst the addiction, economic stress and environmental devastation that have his declining mining town in a stranglehold, his world and identity are thrown into deep disarray. … Expand

Director: Braden King

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 114 min

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Carlos Aguilar

Aug 6, 2021

Narrative bumps and all, The Evening Hour gives Ettinger a full stage to parade his unassuming virtuosity. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jul 26, 2021

The Evening Hour may lean into stereotypes of Appalachia and the lawless dead end many find themselves driving into. But King, working from Elizabeth Palmore’s script, humanizes the character “types” and the “statistics” to make one of the more compelling dramas set in this world and its struggles. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Jul 29, 2021

King works to portray a tight mesh of relationships around Cole, directing Elizabeth Palmore’s valiant adaptation of the sensitively rendered Carter Sickels novel. But lacking a strong central performance from Ettinger — who gets stuck on a half-pained, half-exasperated setting — much of the movie feels like a series of comings and goings, entrances and exits. Read full review

Mark Hanson

Jul 27, 2021

In spite of the film’s strikingly lived-in sense of place, the script’s melodramatic storytelling works against that verisimilitude. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Jul 30, 2021

Unfortunately, The Evening Hour falls back on clichés, telling its story with a palpable sense of distance from the characters, from their struggles, and from the world they inhabit. Read full review

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