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brief June was once a known counter-culture figure, but that was a decade ago. She now lives alone in her South Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world. It's the notorious "Summer of Sam" and June only has to look out of her window to see the violence escalating with the brutal summer heat. The city is on a knife's edge, a pressure-cooker about to explode into the incendiary 1977 New York blackout riots


Rating 4,9 of 10 star


writer Alistair Banks Griffin


899 vote


Countries UK


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This needs to be a Netflix series seriously get this shit to their executives the concept is great.
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8 /10
A pleasant surprise.
I can only applaud this movie for portraying the most believable picture of anxiety and mental issues.
And I love how we get the picture painted of New York and the world outside June's apartment only by looking out of her window and the occasional news broadcast. This is the kind of movie I really want to re-visit. But I don't look particularly forward to another go at this darkness..
Anyway..
By the end you really feel like you know this woman. Even though we have only had insinuations about her life before we meet her. Insinuations is in fact key in the telling of this story.
This movie is in my opinion very well written, very well, directed and very well acted.
As a result I was very pleasantly surprised.
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The Wolf Hour - An Honest Take on Life and it's Difficulties
Warning: Spoilers
Things are never what they appear on screen.
The art of film making consists in telling a story inside a story, in using subtleties and hidden (sometimes not so hidden) meanings to convey a concept, an idea, to makes us thing about the nature of our existence.
In that aspect The Wolf Hour is like any other movie, but there is a fundamental difference that changes The Wolf Hour from a regular movie to a wonderful experience. In essence, all movies are the same, right?
We have a setting, we are introduced to the characters, and then something unforeseeable happens to those characters, and then we got ourselves a movie.
What is different about The Wolf Hour is that, very simply, nothing happens.
We are not watching the beginnings of a disturbance in a character's life, in The Wolf Hour that disturbance already happened, and instead what we're dealing with is the aftermath of said disturbance. When we first meet June she is in a bad place, in every aspect that is possible for a modern human being to be: physically, emotionally and economically.
We are immediately drawn to the question "What happened to that woman? "
And as the movie progresses, we get answers to that question. Those answers come in various forms, hidden in conversations, shown to us through an old cassete tape, through a phone call, through an incredible act of faith that takes form in a "Hail Mary" request for the odd delivery boy.
What we witness on screen are not exactly the actions of June, since she is just going through the motions, uncertain of her future, but what drives her to take those actions and her reaction the the way they unfold. The Wolf Hour is a deep and emotional character study of a once great woman who let her insecurities and fears get the best of her, and how in the darkest moment she sees clearly what's most important to her in life.
It's an honest take on how life can get you down beyond your worst nightmares, nut how your worst enemy will always be yourself. You will always be the person to beat. In the end, I think we all see ourselves in June. I know I did.
"Is that character you? "
7 out of 9 found this helpful.
2 /10
Nothing, over and over
It seems the creator of this movie wrote in a scene in the bath so he could tell funders he had a nude Naomi Watts and they gave him the cash. There seems no other way this script would have made it to production. It's barely a draft.
23 out of 39 found this helpful.
1 /10
Watts' performance cannot save a bad plot
June (Watts) was a celebrated counter culture author (apparently from a well-to-do family) that wrote a well received novel that was more or less a biography of her father. That biography exposed illicit activities of her fathers company which resulted in legal issues and significant strife within her family. The movie opens with June in self-enforced isolation in a Bronx apartment circa 1977 during a summer heat wave, and if you know your history when there was a large power blackout and subsequent fires and looting. Watts gives and outstanding performance, but there is little she can do to resolve terrible story writing from writer/director Alistair Banks Griffin. The first full hour of the movie portrays June as paranoid, depressed, and in obvious self imposed isolation. Suspense build as the viewer assumes that the backstory for June must include some terrible event that shaped her life and made her so fearful. The setting of a bad part of the Bronx during a summer heat wave where she can see crime outside her apartment window reinforced the suspense. There are even radio news snippets that the audience overhears of a serial murderer that is targeting long haired brunettes (you guessed it, Watts' character matches that description). There is also the recurring ringing (and annoying) of her intercom at random hours of the night to make you think somebody is stalking her. We find out that the horrifying event that has so traumatized June was the impact her book had on her family, and her fear of leaving her apartment has nothing to do with her personal safety, but her fear that she will do more damage to the world at large. We also discover that her ordeal and self imposed isolation has lasted 4 years. The writer takes 2 full acts of suspense, scene setting, and character building relying on the incredible talents of Watt to keep the viewer engaged to spectacularly let them down with a petty problem that has only a paper thin relationship to the established paranoia. The third act continues the disappointment as miraculously, a few minor interactions with people (a grocery store delivery guy, her sister, a male prostitute, and a phone call to her publisher) beings a rapid transformation in the character the defies belief. There isn't a clear "thing" that triggers June's transformation. There is an odd conversation with the male prostitute that could have been intended by the writer as the turning point, but it comes off as a non-important moment. Regardless, the character resolves her writers block and suspends a great deal of her paranoia to allow her to dust of her typewriter and finish her book that was 4 years in the making - all in 1 month. The final scenes have June leaving her apartment and watching the sunrise while surrounded by the destruction of the nights riots. This is a really basic story that follows a common hero quest motif (aka The Hero Journey) that most of us learn in grade school English. The only thing that holds the first 2 acts together is Watts' performance and the contrived suspense. The plot device around her paranoia falls flat, and the 3rd act wraps up so rapidly that the lead character just comes off as petty.
26 out of 49 found this helpful.
9 /10
ghost rider oh hell yes
This movie is brilliant and I think the directer is the next Aronofsky. Not one detail was out of place. Totally a time capsule of the old NYC before it was assimilated by satan's government, bankers etc. From the opening shot (Physical Graffiti lol) to the end. Better than Summer of Sam because it doesn't give answers; it shows them in the subtle details and reflective nuances. If you like great movies, don't let the gen pop of one star reviewers who should stick to super heroes and the rest of holly weird deter you from seeing it.
8 out of 12 found this helpful.
6 /10
Conflicted
The acting is pretty good from all the characters, but especially Watts. Visually it's oppressive, the sound design sets you on edge, I hated that buzzer ringing over and over and over again for no purpose. But, the script is atrocious! This film should never have gotten past the proof readers, it is junk. The idea is great, laden with plenty of opportunity and Naomi Watts definitely has it in her talents to give the storytelling exactly what it needs. I mean, come on, a sweaty lecherous police officer denied his I'll gotten gains by a handheld radio, in the 70's? They might well have had those radios back then but that is a lazy way to resolve a narrative dead end. And this buzzer that keeps ringing with no one on the other end? Just get it repaired for the love of god. And why place so much emphasis on this serial killer if you're going to abandon it completely? All in all, it should be a lot better, it's still more enjoyable than say, Hugo or The Zero Theorem - but it ranks alongside those for sheer opaqueness.
6 out of 9 found this helpful.
Watts saves the movie
Watts is one of the best actors of the last 20 years. Without her, this movie would have been a disaster. Watch it, just for her performance alone.
8 out of 14 found this helpful.
Terrible story supported by a great actor
Watts' is phenomenal in what is otherwise a terrible story. The writer uses a tired and obvious story telling structure and has a weak plot device for the main character. Watts does as best as she can with a script so mediocre.
21 out of 47 found this helpful.
Slow Burn with no payoff
The praises from critics on this one actually baffle me. I have never longed for a movie to end as much as I did sitting through this one. I feel the writer had a bunch of ideas in their head for the direction this movie should go and could not decide on one to go with l. Can not recommend enough saving your time and money on this one
20 out of 45 found this helpful.
A suspenseful contained character study
This is not a horror. It's not even really a thriller. It's more like a dark character study with some very suspenseful moments. Naomi Watts was amazing! Great direction, stunning visuals & set pieces. The film really captured the feel of the 70s and setting during the Summer of Sam was genius. to unpack in this film, it definitely warrants a few rewatches.
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10 /10
Yes! Naomi!
Can we all take a moment to acknowledge the fact that Watts is a g*****n amazing actrice!!!!! People who have or have had any form of agorafobia will know she is acting the truth.
7 out of 13 found this helpful.
One man Show from Naomi Watts
It's a startling portrayal of a woman barely holding it together - for the first half hour, the film feels just one or two crises away from Repulsion. Watts, however, is never not in control, keeping Leigh's simmering hysteria just short of the boiling point. Stuck in place yet always in motion, she creates a woman who paces a cage built of self-loathing and shame. Her emotional credibility is essential to the film's success; even though Leigh's personal demons seem real, the facts of her family history sometimes feel false, a crazy quilt of disconnected details. She's the granddaughter of a famous opera singer - who lived in a tenement in the South Bronx? A paranoid recluse - who impulsively hires a male escort from a newspaper ad? No movie should ask you to believe more than one improbable thing yet The Wolf Hour keeps the demands coming. But Watts remains relentlessly watchable, and the film - which, with its single-set locale, could feel stage-bound - starts bringing other, equally complicated people on screen
99 minutes of miserable
miserable nothingness. In short, a waste of 99 minutes of your time, unless you like being miserable and depressed yourself.
11 out of 24 found this helpful.
Naomi Watts did it!
Naomi Watts at her best! A Golden Globe or an Oscar nomination? She definitely nailed the character in this dramatic thriller. Kudos to Naomi!
9 out of 20 found this helpful.
This Movie was Very Crap
Another one of those waste of time movies, I had a feeling about half way through it was going into a big, pile of nothing but I kept hoping for that big turning point that was going to make this a good movie but nope. My on, nothing to see here.
7 out of 15 found this helpful.
A non sensical bore
This film tells the story of a woman who locks herself in her home. What I can tell you, the film is definitely not a thriller. There is no thrill or suspense. In fact, it is full of boredom. The story is not engaging, not captivating and not sensical. If she is so scared of the outside, I struggle to find it sensical that she keeps the windows wide open. The story doesn't go anywhere either. It is just really boring.
4 out of 8 found this helpful.
Decent DRAMA- Not a Mystery or Thriller
This is MISCHARACTERIZED as a Mystery or Thriller or Suspense. It is a good Drama. And as a drama, albeit almost a ONE person drama, it is decent. All the itinerant characters are acceptably played and Watts is the keystone. I wouldn't pay money to see it, but few movies are worth paying to see anymore. But for a cyberflix of catmouse viewer it's okay, then if you really like it go pay to see it or buy it.
1 out of 1 found this helpful.
What the hell is this
Anyone who give this more than a 1/10 it a production company employee. This was a load of crap
9 out of 26 found this helpful.
Dreary and oppressive
I've been a fan of Naomi Watts ever since she played perky Betty in Mulholland Drive (1999) and she has a pretty solid filmography ever since ( just a few duds). She has the courage to play 'screw-up personality' roles for instance in the recent (forgettable) mini TV series Gypsy (2017) and now this movie. But not even her acting can offset the dismal and implausible story line and completely unengaging lead character part. How do investors/producers (including Watts as an executive producer) come to think this movie will have any audience appeal?
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The Wolf Hour
I love this movie. I thought it was a nice break from the usual formulaic movies. It was engaging to see the process of isolation in an urban area, notably the violent Summer of Sam era in the then almost bankrupt NYC. I thought it was nice to see how NYC in the 70s was visualized. Noami Watts also did an excellent job of making you go through a range of emotions with her character June. Like the scene where she banked on Freddie to deliver the only copy of her book, giving him her last money and hoping he would come back with the cheque. You could feel the despair. And there are many memorable moments like this. It was also nice that the ending stayed away from the usual formulaic act of physically fighting a bad guy but uses the riots as a vehicle for her to overcome her fear. If there was a moment to fear the outside world it was that moment of lawlessness. However June was too busy worrying about Freddie that she forgot about her own fear and this resulted in her overcoming her fear. It was really creative writing. I thought the movie was an unique experience with many memorable moments.
4 out of 10 found this helpful.
Naomi was great in this...
The entire plot though not so much. Felt like the film kept certain things ambiguous. First, you don't know if Margot is an ex, a best friend or a sister. Maybe I missed something there. When she calls an escort service they leave you in suspense until the date arrives. Apart from that it was a mystery drama with subtle thriller elements only because it felt like something bad was always about to happen. There are only a few times I feared for her, when she looks out the window multiple times near the end and when she encounters 2 different men. Her agoraphobia is felt and her facing it was relieving. Watch when you have the patience to feel like you're about to be thrilled and instead brought to a dull dramatic end.
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7 /10
Why these bad reviews??
I dont understand this great movie gets all this bad reviews.
All i can say is
Acting is great
Cinematography is good
Script is good
Its not too long
Music and editing is good
Actually everything is pretty good and sometimes great so how anybody can give this movie less than average is a mystery or just plain trolling.
Feel bad for the director that made a great job with obviously a pretty low mainstream budget
GREAT MOVIE
Instant classic and Sundance nominee!! Would definitely recommend to friends and family, Naomi Watts is magical!
12 out of 49 found this helpful.
Great film, absolutely recommend
Great film, great production overall from the acting, writing, and direction. Absolutely loved the performance by Naomi Watts.
12 out of 52 found this helpful.
Watts is superb
THE WOLF HOUR (2019) *** Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Jeremy Bobb. Watts is superb as a writer on an emotional downward spiral after the death of her grandmother and holing up in her South Bronx apartment during the Summer Of Sam in NYC (1977) with her mind playing tricks on her and ultimately her conflict of remaining in her home despite the fact the outside world will always be a factor. Director Alistair Banks Griffin taps into his inner Polanski echoing the legendary filmmakers' 'apartment trilogy' with the right amount of dread, despair and claustrophobia.
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June was once a known counter-culture figure, but that was a decade ago. She now lives alone in her South Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world. It's the notorious "Summer of Sam" and June only has to look out of her window to see the violence escalating with the brutal summer heat. The city is on a knife's edge, a pressure-cooker about to explode into the incendiary 1977 New York blackout riots.
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Starring:
Angel Christian Roman, Brennan Brown, Emory Cohen, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Bobb, Justin Clarke, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Maritza Veer, Naomi Watts, Ohene Cornelius, Pedro Hollywood, Richard Bird
Summary:
June (Naomi Watts) was once a celebrated counter-culture figure, but that was a decade ago. She now lives alone in her fifth floor South Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world. It’s the notorious “Summer of Sam” and June only has to look out of her window to see the violence escalating with the brutal summer June (Naomi Watts) was once a celebrated counter-culture figure, but that was a decade ago. It’s the notorious “Summer of Sam” and June only has to look out of her window to see the violence escalating with the brutal summer heat. The city is on a knife’s edge, a pressure-cooker about to explode into the incendiary 1977 New York blackout riots.
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Genre(s):
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Rating:
R
Runtime:
99 min.


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Movies | ‘The Wolf Hour’ Review: Panic in the City In this psychological drama, Naomi Watts plays an agoraphobic writer slowly unraveling in a blistering New York City apartment. Credit... Alison Cohen Rosa/Brainstorm Media The Wolf Hour Directed by Alistair Banks Griffin Drama, Mystery, Thriller R 1h 39m More Information More than anything, “The Wolf Hour” suggests an unfinished “Twilight Zone” episode, one that teases an explosive, possibly supernatural payoff before fizzling out. Set in the South Bronx in the sweltering summer of 1977, this psychological drama centers on June (Naomi Watts), an agoraphobic writer four years into spending a hefty advance for her second novel. Tormented by trauma that’s somehow linked to her celebrated debut, June smokes and paces, her whole body crackling with distress. Unfolding almost entirely inside the filthy, trash-strewn apartment that once belonged to June’s grandmother, “The Wolf Hour” paints a portrait of mental instability coated in sweat and cigarette ash. Outside the open window, the killer known as Son of Sam terrorizes the dusty streets, where brawls and sirens only intensify June’s paranoia. Now and then, random visitors interrupt her isolation, like her concerned sister ( Jennifer Ehle), an empathetic gigolo (a kind-eyed Emory Cohen) and a wary delivery man ( Kelvin Harrison Jr. ) from the bodega downstairs. None of these encounters, however, do much to flesh out a character who, despite Watts’s magnificently nervy performance, remains a messed-up mystery. More compelling is the atmosphere of near-constant menace that the writer and director, Alistair Banks Griffin, and his cinematographer, Khalid Mohtaseb, strive to maintain. The repeatedly buzzing doorbell that, when answered, reveals only nerve-jangling static; the conversations that take peculiar, bewildering turns. The result is a sometimes punishingly theatrical experiment that teeters on the verge of surreality, transfixing us with the promise of something terrible lurking just beyond those ratty curtains. The Wolf Hour Rated R for a sweet gigolo and a sleazy police officer. Running time: 1 hour 39 minutes.


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