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Release Date: 2009

Cast: Barlow Jacobs, Carrie Preston, Brian Keith, William J. Mode, Bruce McKinnon, Mia Wasikowska, Barry Corbin, Ray McKinnon, Jacob Parkhurst, Anthony Reynolds, Dixie Carter, Hal Holbrook ...MORE

Cast: Barlow Jacobs, Carrie Preston, Brian Keith, William J. Mode, Bruce McKinnon, Mia Wasikowska, Barry Corbin, Ray McKinnon, Jacob Parkhurst, Anthony Reynolds, Dixie Carter, Hal Holbrook, Walton Goggins ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Film Adaptation, Indie, Melodrama

That Evening Sun is a 2009 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... MORE

That Evening Sun is a 2009 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." 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. The film opened in limited release in November 2009, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on September 7, 2010. Abner Meecham (Hal Holbrook), an aging Tennessee farmer discarded at a nursing facility by his lawyer son, flees the old folks home and catches a ride back to his country farm to live out his days in peace. Upon his LESS