Hours Page #4

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Eric Heisserer
Production: The Film Arcade
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
PG-13
Year:
2013
97 min
Website
495 Views


Come here. What else can we do?

Okay.

What?

I'll go get help.

Okay? Just hang in there.

Yeah. Well, okay. Go.

- Okay?

- Yes. Please, go. You're right.

Go, please, but, hurry, Shelly.

Come on, alright? Hurry!

I'm told that the New Orleans Police put out

a call to all of its officers saying...

if you have a boat bring it here, help us.

But the officers who have boats

cannot get to them in many cases,

because the roads are floaded

to their homes.

I don't think you want some, huh?

You don't. It's not good for babies.

That's the good stuff.

That's what's good for you.

You like it, don't you?

No.

I'm not going crazy,

I just feel like talking.

Your mother,

she had a hard time sleeping at night.

But in the day time,

she was this real force of nature,

she just...

She ran her own business, and...

She carried herself like

a drill sergeant, you know.

She...

she was bulletproof.

That's what she was.

But at night she had these...

she'd have these stress dreams and...

I'd lay there in bed and...

I would, I would just say anything really,

I'd tell her how much I loved her,

and I would tell her how

everything was going to be okay.

And...

you know, most of the times,

she'd sleep the entire night through.

You would have really loved her.

Let's see what else we got.

Baby blanket?

Latex gloves. What are these?

Diapers.

I didn't even think about that.

You probably need your diaper changed.

We got daddy diaper directions.

We don't need you.

Go away.

Little diapers for a little baby.

Why isn't that working?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is bad.

God! What has your Mom

been feeding you? Charcoal?

Alright.

Let's get this one out of there.

Okay. Where am I putting this?

Let's get a couple of pieces going.

How does that feel?

Does it feel alright?

Someone please get the next one.

'Cause I am tapped out.

Did they give you one of these

reports to fill in?

No.

God! I hate paperwork.

I'm Nolan, by the way.

Abigail.

- Pleasure to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

I got suckered. I thought they were gonna

deputize me or something. What a gyp.

Yeah, I don't think it works like that.

Well it should.

I totally stopped that getaway driver.

- You saw that, right?

- No, No, I saw that.

- That was really good work.

- Yeah.

- Yeah. You've done that before.

- Yeah, clearly.

Maybe you can get a reward too.

For walking into the other guy.

- Oh, you mean the guy with the gun.

- Yeah, that one.

- That guy.

- That guy.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

What if I don't wanna be deputized?

Well then what are you asking for?

Dinner.

That sounds lovely.

Okay. Alright, but I'm driving.

- Oh, yeah?

- I just figure,

in case on the way we see a jaywalker and you, all

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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