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  • 2021
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2021
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 54 m

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 excess pai...

Directed By: Braden King

Written By: Elizabeth Palmore, Carter Sickels

  • 2021
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2021
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 54 m

The Evening Hour

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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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 excess pai...

Directed By: Braden King

Written By: Elizabeth Palmore, Carter Sickels

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
47
40% Positive
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20% Mixed
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40% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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40% Positive
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20% Mixed
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40% Negative
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80
Aug 6, 2021
Narrative bumps and all, The Evening Hour gives Ettinger a full stage to parade his unassuming virtuosity.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW
38
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.
By Sheila O'Malley FULL REVIEW
38
Jul 27, 2021
In spite of the film’s strikingly lived-in sense of place, the script’s melodramatic storytelling works against that verisimilitude.
By Mark Hanson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Secret Engine, Star Thrower Entertainment, Truckstop Media, Washington Square Films
Release Date Jul 30, 2021
Duration 1 h 54 m
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Website https://strandreleasing.com/films/the-evening-hour/
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Rotterdam International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Torino Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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