Hours (2013)

A father struggles to keep his infant daughter alive in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Director:

Eric Heisserer

Writer:

Eric Heisserer

Stars:

Paul Walker, Genesis Rodriguez, Nancy Nave

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Paul Walker	...	Nolan Hayes
Genesis Rodriguez	...	Abigail Hayes
Nancy Nave	...	Sandra
Shane Jacobsen	...	Marc
Natalia Safran	...	Karen
TJ Hassan	...	Jeremy (as T.J. Hassan)
Lena Clark	...	Lucy
Kesha Bullard	...	Nurse
Yohance Myles	...	Dr. Edmonds
Judd Lormand	...	Glenn
Tony Bentley	...	Doctor
Ian Hoch	...	Resident
Kerry Cahill	...	Nurse Shelly
Oscar Gale	...	Hector
Christopher Matthew Cook	...	Lenny (as Matt Cook)

Storyline

In New Orleans just before Hurricane Katrina hits, a pregnant woman gives birth prematurely. She dies and her baby is in critical condition. The baby has to be kept in a neonatal incubator. When the hurricane strikes, all the power goes out and everyone in the hospital leaves. But the baby's father stays because the baby can't be moved so he has to take care of his baby by making sure the ventilator stays on. And because there's no power, the only power source is generator that he has to crank every few minutes. So he has to stay awake while waiting for someone to come for them.

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Plot Keywords:

hospital | hurricane | hurricane katrina | incubator | baby in peril | 

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Taglines:

Every second counts

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Genres:

Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, violence and drug material

Did You Know?

Trivia

This Is Eric Heisserer's Directorial Debut.

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Goofs

At the beginning of the movie, just after Nolan Haye's wife death, Paul walker is asking the doctor, when the storm would pass ? And the Dr Edmond to respond : it's not a storm but an hurricane, 20mn later the same Dr is saying to Nolan Hayes: "Sure, stop the storm".

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Quotes

[last lines]
Nolan: [hugging crying baby] I know you.

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Connections

Featured in I Am Paul Walker (2018)

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Soundtracks

All I Feel Is You
Written and Performed by Natalia Safran and Mikolaj Jaroszyk (as Mikolaj Mick Jaroszyk)
Produced by Mikolaj Jaroszyk and Kostek Andriejew
Published by Natalia Safran and Mikolaj Jaroszyk (as Mikolaj Mick Jaroszyk)

User Reviews

The Paul Walker monologue

¨Every second counts.¨

Hours is Eric Heisserer's first feature film, but he is mostly known for his screenplays for The Thing (the 2010 version) and Final Destination 5. He takes a pretty interesting premise but fails in the delivery as the film has too many awkward moments with a lot of forced dialogues. Take the scene where Paul Walker's character is being given very bad news from a doctor concerning his wife. The scene felt entirely forced and never managed to draw the audience in. There are numerous scenes like that in Hours that just feel completely out of place. Paul Walker is on his own for the majority of the film and once the story began to drag it failed to engage me. There were few thrills and hardly any action scenes. For the most part it was just seeing Walker speaking out loud to his recently born infant, or to a rescue dog he encountered later on in the film. When he wasn't speaking to himself, the film gave us unnecessary flashbacks about how he and his wife met. Hours should've been a film full of tension, but Heisserer failed to deliver by adding so many unnecessary and forced scenes and not relying on Walker's physical performance alone.

The film takes place in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina as Nolan (Paul Walker) takes his pregnant wife, Abigail (Genesis Rodriguez), to a local hospital as she enters early labor. The Hurricane is about to hit the city hard while the doctors ask Nolan to stay in the waiting room while they treat Abigail. A few hours later Doctor Jeremy (TJ Hassan) comes bearing some bad news. Abigail had a complicated labor, the newborn baby has to stay on a ventilator for the next 48 hours until she learns how to breath on her own. The mother didn't make it. Making matters worse, the hospital is hit hard by the hurricane, forcing everyone to evacuate. Nolan is told to stay in the hospital with the baby until an ambulance can come back and take them to safer ground. Cut from the outside world, Nolan is on his own forced to make quick decisions in order to save his baby's life.

If as the tagline suggests ¨Every second counts¨ than Eric Heisserer did a very lousy job because there are several seconds wasted on this film. It dragged during several moments making me feel like I was watching an over two hour film, when in reality it was just a 95 minute movie. Paul Walker isn't bad in this film, but he just isn't given the right material to carry a film on his own. The most exciting moments of the film came when a rescue dog showed up and it kind of brought life to an otherwise lifeless film. Hours is full of awkward and dull moments that bring down this film. Walker could have been given less dialogue and the flashbacks should've been cut out of the film. Some more external shots of the storm might have worked better because the wreckage scenes were pretty well shot. Overall it wasn't a terrible film, but it did fail to keep me entertained or invested in the story.

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 December 2013 (Philippines)

Also Known As:

Hours

Filming Locations:

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$4,000,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$801,983

Company Credits

Production Co:

The Safran Company, PalmStar Media, Hours Capital

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color