{"id":40705,"date":"2025-12-09T06:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40705"},"modified":"2025-12-09T06:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:59:24","slug":"the-silent-hour-2024-starring-joel-kinnaman-sandra-mae-frank-mekhi-phifer-and-mark-strong-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40705","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Silent Hour&#8221; (2024) starring Joel Kinnaman, Sandra Mae Frank, Mekhi Phifer and Mark Strong \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z120925zview_silenthour.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Silent Hour <\/strong><\/em>(2024)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Brad Anderson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Dan Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Joel Kinnaman, Sandra Mae Frank, Mark Strong, Jonathan Koensgen <\/strong>and <strong>Mekhi Phifer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<i> Without a sound.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sixteen months ago Boston Police Detective Frank Shaw lost his hearing.\u00a0 Now, back on the job, Frank is still adjusting.\u00a0 Frank and his partner, Detective Doug Slater, are sent to a building undergoing renovations to interview Ava Freemont.\u00a0 Ava witnessed a murder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frank meets his partner at the building.\u00a0 It turns out Ava is deaf.\u00a0 Frank gets some first hand practice at sign language.\u00a0 After the interview Frank and Detective Slater go their separate ways.\u00a0 As Frank is about to drive off, he realizes he left something in Ava&#8217;s apartment.\u00a0 He returns to get it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when the murderer and several of his buddies show up.\u00a0 They plan to silence Ava&#8230; forever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What chance do two deal people have against several armed murderers?\u00a0 Trapped in a building&#8230; with no way to communicate to the outside world Frank and Ava are outmanned and outgunned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Worse still, they can&#8217;t hear what&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sandra Mae Frank, who plays Ava, has been deaf since the age of three.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Joel Kinnaman starred in <em>Silent Night<\/em>, where he also played a hearing-impaired protagonist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>The Silent Hour <\/strong><\/em>(2024) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z120925zview_silenthour2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Silent Hour (2024) Director: Brad Anderson Screenplay: Dan Hall Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Sandra Mae Frank, Mark Strong, Jonathan Koensgen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40706,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40705\/revisions\/40706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}