Shadows in the Storm

1988 film

Shadows in the Storm

Directed by| Terrell Tannen
Written by| Terrell Tannen
Produced by| A.J. Cervantes
Ronald S Altbach
Strathford Hamilton
J. Daniel Dusek
Starring| Ned Beatty
Mia Sara
Michael Madsen
James Widdoes
Donna Mitchell
Cinematography| John J. Connor
Edited by| Marcy Hamilton
Music by| Sasha Matson
Distributed by| Vidmark Entertainment

Release date

* October 13, 1988 (1988-10-13) (Sitges Film Festival)

Running time

| 90 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

Shadows in the Storm is a 1988 drama/thriller film directed by Terrell Tannen, and starring Mia Sara, Ned Beatty, Michael Madsen and Troy Evans.

## Plot

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Thelonious Pitt, a daydreaming businessman, goes to the Redwood Forests of California. There, he meets a beautiful woman, Melanie. She looks like the woman he has been seeing in his dreams.

At the river late at night, when Melanie's husband finds them, he attacks Thelonious until Melanie pulls out a pistol and fires three shots at her husband. His body goes into the river. That is when the nightmare begins.

## Cast

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* Ned Beatty as Thelonious Pitt
* Mia Sara as Melanie
* Michael Madsen as Earl
* Donna Mitchell as Elizabeth
* James Widdoes as Victor
* Joe Dorsey as Birkenstock (Joe Dorcey)
* William Bumiller as Terwilliger
* Peter Fox as Hotel Clerk
* Troy Evans as Detective Harris
* Bob Gould as Detective Wand
* Tracy Brooks Swope as Mercy
* Ramon Angeloni as Birkenstock's Assistant
* Marta Goldstein as Terwilliger's Girlfriend

## Reception

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Fred Haeseker of the Calgary Herald called the film, "a blunt stab at a traditional California film noir" and that it "stirs up not so much lurid menace as unrelieved tedium."[1]

## References

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1. ^ Haeseker, Fred (February 24, 1990). "Would-be film noir falters on elements of timing, menace". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 25 October 2022.

## External links

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* Shadows in the Storm at IMDb
* Shadows in the Storm at Rotten Tomatoes

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