It’s July 1977, and New York City is awash with escalating violence. A citywide blackout is triggering fires, looting, and countless arrests, and the Son of Sam murders are riddling the city with panic. June, once a celebrated counterculture figure, attempts to retreat from the chaos by shutting herself inside the yellowed walls of her grandmother’s South Bronx apartment. But her doorbell is ringing incessantly, the heat is unbearable, and creeping paranoia and fear are taking hold. Visitors, some invited, some unsolicited, arrive one by one, and June must determine whom she can trust and whether she can find a path back to her former self.
With Hitchcockian tautness, writer-director Alistair Banks Griffin flawlessly captures the style and texture of the 1970s and the interior unraveling of a woman who, like her city, is teetering on a knife-edge. Naomi Watts’s astonishing performance is that of an antihero racked with paralyzing anxiety. In this eerily resonant allegory for our times, she is, like all of us, weighing her actions in a world on the brink of collapse.
The Wolf Hour is a 2019 thriller drama film written and directed by Alistair Banks Griffin. It stars Naomi Watts, Emory Cohen, Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jeremy Bobb and Brennan Brown. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2019. It is scheduled to be released on December 6, 2019, by Brainstorm Media.
The Wolf Hour (2019)
Directed by: Alistair Banks Griffin
Starring: Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Emory Cohen, Brennan Brown, Jeremy Bobb, Maritza Veer, Justin Clarke, Angel Christian Roman, Pedro Hollywood
Screenplay by: Alistair Banks Griffin
Production Design by: Kaet McAnneny
Cinematography by: Khalid Mohtaseb
Film Editing by: Robert Mead
Costume Design by: Brenda Abbandandolo
Set Decoration by: Roland Trafton
Art Direction by: Joshua Petersen
Music by: Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans
MPAA Rating: R for language and brief sexuality / nudity.
Distributed by: Brainstorm Media
Release Date: December 6, 2019
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