That Evening Sun (film)

That Evening Sun
Directed byScott Teems
Screenplay byScott Teems
Based on"I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down"
by William Gay
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRodney Taylor
Edited byTravis Sittard
Music byMichael Penn
Production
companies
  • Dogwood Entertainment
  • Ginny Mule Pictures
Distributed byFreestyle Releasing
Release date
  • November 6, 2009 (2009-11-06)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$281,350[1]

That Evening Sun is a 2009 American drama film based on a 2002 short story "I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down" by William Gay. The movie, produced by Dogwood Entertainment, stars Hal Holbrook as Abner Meecham and is directed by Scott Teems who also wrote the screenplay. That Evening Sun premiered in March 2009 at South By Southwest, where it received the Audience Award for Narrative Feature and a special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast. Joe Leydon of Variety hailed it as "an exceptionally fine example of regional indie filmmaking," and praised Holbrook's performance as a "career-highlight star turn as an irascible octogenarian farmer who will not go gentle into that good night."[2] That Evening Sun also was screened at the 2009 Nashville Film Festival, where Holbrook was honored with a special Lifetime Achievement Award, and the film itself received another Audience Award.[3]

The film opened in limited release in November 2009, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on September 7, 2010.

  1. ^ "That Evening Sun". Box Office Mojo.
  2. ^ Leydon, Joe (March 26, 2009). "That Evening Sun". Variety.
  3. ^ "2009 Nashville Film Festival Wraps with "Make-Out with Violence" and "Shakespeare and Victor Hugo's Intimacies" Taking Top Prizes". PR Web. April 24, 2009. Archived from the original on May 4, 2009.