Written and directed by Alistair Banks Griffin
Starring Naomi Watts, Brennan Brown, Jennifer Ehle and Kelvin Harrison Jr. 
Running Time: 1 hour and 39 mins
MPAA Rating: R for language and brief sexuality/nudity

by Sara Clements

Recuperating from an injury, anti-establishment novelist June Leigh (Naomi Watts) is confined to her Bronx apartment. Her rear window looks out onto a street and several businesses. During a powerful heatwave, she watches life down below. If it sounds like I’m just rephrasing the Wikipedia synopsis of Rear Window you would be absolutely right. Alistair Banks Griffin’s latest thriller, The Wolf Hour, is quite similar in many respects to the Hitchcock masterpiece. But unlike James Stewart’s L.B. Jefferies, June isn’t confined to her apartment due to a physical injury. It’s something much more serious than that. It’s an injury of the mind, a past heartbreaking event that traumatized her so badly that she is no longer willing to go outside.