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Hours (2013)

Hours poster
Directed by
Eric Heisserer
Genre
drama film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 798 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A father is trapped in a New Orleans hospital with his newborn daughter after Hurricane Katrina causes a citywide power outage. He fights to keep her alive as the hospital floods and conditions grow increasingly dangerous.

tenseclaustrophobicurgentemotionally chargedsuspensefuldesperateintimategrittysurvivalist

What happens

Hours is a 2013 American thriller film directed and written by Eric Heisserer. The film stars Paul Walker, Genesis Rodriguez, T. J. Hassan, and Judd Lormand, and follows a father who struggles to keep his newborn infant daughter alive after the electricity cuts off in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The film premiered on March 10, 2013 at the South by Southwest Film Festival in the Topfer Theatre in Austin, Texas. It went on general release on December 13, 2013, two weeks after Paul Walker's death on November 30, 2013. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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