Preview: That Evening Sun (2009)

Synopsis:

An elderly man, emerging from a retirement community, returns home to discover a couple and their daughter squatting in the house he shared with his wife. He must find a way to evict the family or learn to live with their presence.

• Poster: C

Review:

There isn't much to the poster, which is much of its problem. The excitement is absent and you can't recognize Hal Holbrook from behind, so how it plans to bring in an audience with just this is anyone's guess.

• Trailer: B

Review:

Hal Holbrook is very interesting to watch in this trailer and the promises the film makes are strong, but one should be wary with a film that looks to be fishing for an Oscar nomination for its star.

Oscar Prospects:

Holbrook may have to accept his Oscar nomination the only one he's going to get. This film looks like the kind of Oscar baiting small budget film that failed to earn any traction for a second nomination for Armin Mueller-Stahl in Local Color. I could be wrong as this year isn't shaping up to be a strong acting year, but I'm not sure most people will even get out to see this one.

Release Date:

• November 6, 2009

Full Review Synopsis:

I have not seen this film.

-Wesley Lovell (October 25, 2009) Original