Hammer (2019 film)

Hammer
Directed byChristian Sparkes
Written byChristian Sparkes
Joel Thomas Hynes
Produced byAllison White
Chris Agoston
Jonathan Bronfman
William Woods
StarringWill Patton
Mark O'Brien
Ben Cotton
CinematographyMike McLaughlin
Edited byJorge Weisz
Music byJeffrey Morrow
Production
companies
Sara Fost Pictures
The Screen Asylum
JoBro Productions
Woods Entertainment
Distributed byA71 Entertainment
Vertical Entertainment
Release date
  • December 5, 2019 (2019-12-05) (Whistler)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Hammer is a 2019 Canadian crime thriller film, directed by Christian Sparkes.[1] The film stars Will Patton as Stephen Davis, a man in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, whose estranged son Chris (Mark O'Brien) double-crosses drug dealer Adams (Ben Cotton), forcing Stephen and Chris to reunite after Adams takes Stephen's younger son Jeremy (Connor Price) hostage.[2]

The cast also includes Vickie Papavs as Stephen's wife Karen, as well as Dayle McLeod, Curtis Caravaggio, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Jason Weinberg, Stephen Lush, Deidre Gillard-Rowlings and Trish Rainone in supporting roles.

The film premiered in the Canadian Vanguard program at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival,[3] before going into commercial release on video on demand platform in 2020.[1]