The Evening Hour

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The Evening Hour

2021

1h 54m

Drama

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The autumnal mountains of southern Appalachia hold a haunting power within which Cole Freeman (Philip Ettinger FIRST REFORMED), 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, LADY MACBETH), 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. Life is pushed even further out of balance by the sudden homecoming of Cole's estranged mother, Ruby (Lili Taylor, THE CONJURING), increasing conflict with the region's true drug dealer, Everett (Marc Menchaca, OZARK, THE OUTSIDER) and shifting relationships with two local women: Charlotte (Stacy Martin, NYMPHOMANIAC) and Lacy (Kerry Bishé, ARGO). Faced with an impossible set of choices and intensifying pressure from all sides, Cole soon decides that he has to take action to save the tight-knit fabric of family, friendship, land and history that binds everything and everyone he loves.

Carlos Aguilar

Los Angeles Times

08/05/2021

King's touching, if muddled, drama succeeds at dignifying a subset of this country's working class.

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Sheila O'Malley

RogerEbert.com

07/30/2021

1.5/4

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.

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Nicolas Rapold

New York Times

07/29/2021

The movie opens and closes with appreciative pans of the verdant hills that suggest the heartland will live on. But what comes in the middle doesn't quite hold together.

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Josh Parham

Next Best Picture

06/05/2022

4/10

The landscapes establish a sufficient mood, but one also finds it difficult to become completely engulfed in the storytelling by the visual aesthetics alone.

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Ray Pride

Newcity

08/26/2021

8/10

Lingering... rural elegy... As with King's documentary work and his first fiction feature, "Here" (2011), the stately glimpse of place and space express as much yearning as the most disappointed yet hopeful human heart...

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Leo Brady

AMovieGuy.com

08/12/2021

2/4

There is potential from director Braden King and the entire cast is game to take on their roles, but it all just doesn't come together.

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greg r

@itsgregsworld 09/13/2021

I watched this movie over two hours and never figured out what it was really about. That's not okay.

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lois h

@TheBride 08/07/2021

This is a real story about people, struggles, life, relationships, and dope. Set in the backdrop of what could be earthy West Virginia, we're taken right into the mildewed-smelling homes of a different culture. I think this is a rich film. The dope-trading heroes and demons are in a battle for the substrate of small, deep America. The acting is superb, but credit must be given to Cosmo Jarvis who seems to crawl right into a persona and delivers it completely. See this film.

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Synopsis

The autumnal mountains of southern Appalachia hold a haunting power within which Cole Freeman (Philip Ettinger FIRST REFORMED), 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, LADY MACBETH), 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. Life is pushed even further out of balance by the sudden homecoming of Cole's estranged mother, Ruby (Lili Taylor, THE CONJURING), increasing conflict with the region's true drug dealer, Everett (Marc Menchaca, OZARK, THE OUTSIDER) and shifting relationships with two local women: Charlotte (Stacy Martin, NYMPHOMANIAC) and Lacy (Kerry Bishé, ARGO). Faced with an impossible set of choices and intensifying pressure from all sides, Cole soon decides that he has to take action to save the tight-knit fabric of family, friendship, land and history that binds everything and everyone he loves.

Director: Braden King
Producer: Lucas Joaquin, Braden King, Tom Skapars, Derrick Tseng, Tim White
Screenwriter: Elizabeth Palmore
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Production Co: Truckstop Media, Washington Square Films, Secret Engine, Star Thrower Entertainment
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 13, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 3, 2021
Runtime: 1h 54m