12 Hour Shift

American black comedy film the film the employment practice Shift work August 2026 September 2020 12 Hour Shift File:12 Hour Shift (2020) poster.jpg Promotional release poster Brea Grant Brea Grant Christina McLarty ArquetteDavid ArquetteJordan Wayne LongTara PerryMatt Glass Angela BettisChloe FarnworthNikea Gamby-TurnerKit WilliamsonDavid Arquette Matt Glass Amy McGrath Matt Glass HCT Mediahttps://deadline.com/2020/04/david-christina-arquette-production-plan-coronavirus-arkansas-1202921198/ Reopening Hollywood: David & Christina Arquette Lay Out Bold Plan To Open Production In Arkansas & Brave COVID-19 Shutdown White Peter April 30, 2020 Deadline Hollywood June 20, 2020 Magnet Releasing 2020 09 22 Fantasia https://fantasiafestival.com/en/film/12-hour-shift 12 Hour Shift Fantasia International Film Festival September 21, 2020 November 6, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201106163858/https://fantasiafestival.com/en/film/12-hour-shift dead 86 minuteshttps://tribecafilm.com/films/12-hour-shift-2020 12 Hour Shift 2020 Tribeca Film Festival Tribeca Film Festival June 20, 2020 September 21, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200921001304/https://tribecafilm.com/films/12-hour-shift-2020 dead United States English $6,820 https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2304082689/weekend/ 12 Hour Shift (2020) Box Office Mojo October 31, 2020https://m.the-numbers.com/movie/12-Hour-Shift 12 Hour Shift (2020) The Numbers October 31, 2020 November 16, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201116043945/https://m.the-numbers.com/movie/12-Hour-Shift dead 12 Hour Shift is a 2020 American black comedy horror film written and directed by Brea Grant and starring Angela Bettis, Kit Williamson, and David Arquette. Bettis plays Mandy, a drug-addicted nurse involved in a black market organ-trading scheme in 1999.https://www.salon.com/2020/05/06/12-hour-shift-brea-grant-tribeca/ In comedy-thriller "12 Hour Shift," blood and chaos reigns as a murderer terrorizes a hospital Kramer Gary M. May 6, 2020 Salon June 20, 2020 Arquette was one of the film's producers, alongside his wife Christina Arquette, and Jordan Wayne Long, Tara Perry, and Matt Glass.https://www.avclub.com/david-arquette-clocks-in-for-a-12-hour-shift-in-this-ex-1842985775 David Arquette clocks in for a 12 Hour Shift in this exclusive clip from Brea Grant's new movie Rife Katie April 22, 2020 The A.V. Club June 20, 2020https://ew.com/movies/12-hour-shift-trailer-brea-grant/ 12 Hour Shift trailer teases Brea Grant's bloody black-comedy Collis Clark April 15, 2020 Entertainment Weekly June 20, 2020 The film also features music composed by Glass. 12 Hour Shift was scheduled to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2020 prior to the festival being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Distribution rights were acquired by Magnet Releasing in June 2020, and it premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival in September 2020. The film earned positive reviews from critics, who praised the cast—especially Bettis and Farnworth—and humor. Plot In Arkansas in 1999, Mandy is an overworked nurse with a drug addiction. In addition to stealing patient medications, she finances her drug habit by harvesting dead patients' organs. Desk nurse Karen is Mandy's partner, and Mandy has recently brought on her cousin Regina to transport the organs to trafficker Nicholas. One night, at the start of her 12-hour shift, Mandy hands over a harvested kidney in a cooler to Regina behind the hospital. Regina accidentally leaves the cooler with the kidney, instead carrying a cooler with a soda can to Nicholas. Nicholas demands Regina get the kidney or he will take hers. Regina cannot find the kidney at the hospital. Mandy refuses to help her, so Regina dresses like a nurse and kills one of Mandy's patients by pouring bleach down his throat. Regina expects that Mandy will be able to extract the dead patient's kidney, but Mandy angrily explains that he was on dialysis, so his kidneys are unusable. Police arrive to investigate the murdered patient. Regina attacks more people and threatens to expose the organ trafficking operation unless Mandy helps her. Mandy agrees and tells Regina to wait outside. Regina sees one of Nicholas's henchmen, and in a panic kills a passing skateboarder to take his kidney, but ends up taking his bladder instead. Meanwhile, inside the hospital Mandy kills a patient with an overdose and manages to harvest his kidney. She leaves the kidney in another cooler by the vending machine, but it has disappeared by the time Regina gets to it. Nicholas's henchman Mikey, who has entered the hospital and terrorized staff and patients, prepares to drag Regina away, but she desperately suggests that they kidnap a comatose patient so that Nicholas can take all his organs. The comatose patient is Mandy's abusive, drug-addicted half-brother. Mandy intervenes, and together she and Regina manage to overcome Mikey. The police investigation incorrectly determines that Mikey had been committing the murders around the hospital. Regina leaves. Hospital guest Mr. Kent suddenly announces that he has been finding the coolers containing kidneys all night; the exhausted Mandy leaves to take a nap in her truck. The film ends with Mandy re-entering the hospital to begin her next shift, followed shortly thereafter by Nicholas. Cast Angela Bettis as Mandy David Arquette as Jefferson Chloe Farnworth as Regina Mick Foley as Nicholas Kit Williamson as Officer Myers Nikea Gamby-Turner as Karen Tara Perry as Dorothy Brooke Seguin as Janet Dusty Warren as Mikey Tom DeTrinis as Mr. Kent Thomas Hobson as Derrick Julianne Dowler as Cathy Briana Lane as Cheryl Williams Sydney Steinberg as Denise Hamford Taylor Alden as Shawna Missy Stahr Threadgill as Mrs. Patrick Scott Dean as Efron Ted Ferguson as Mr. Collins Aaron Preusch as Andrew Release 12 Hour Shift was scheduled to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2020,https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3620704/magnet-releasing-acquires-brea-grants-12-hour-shift-starring-angela-bettis-cannes/ Magnet Releasing Acquires Brea Grant's '12 Hour Shift' Starring Angela Bettis! [Cannes] Miska Brad June 19, 2020 Bloody Disgusting June 20, 2020 but the festival was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, it was reported that the film's worldwide distribution rights were acquired by Magnet Releasing. Reception On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of score based on count reviews, with an average rating of average. The website's critics consensus reads: "Sharp, twisted, and darkly funny, 12 Hour Shift is an uncommonly clever heist caper with a refreshing female-focused twist."https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/12_hour_shift 12 Hour Shift (2020) Rotten Tomatoes Fandango access date On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100 based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. https://www.metacritic.com/movie/12-hour-shift 12 Hour Shift Reviews Metacritic October 1, 2020 Hoai-Tran Bui of /Film praised Bettis's performance, and wrote that the film "has a sick sense of humor that makes its washed-out setting the perfect blank canvas for writer and director Grant to paint her gleefully bloody caper."https://www.slashfilm.com/12-hour-shift-review/ '12 Hour Shift' Review: A Botched Black Market Deal Turns Into a Bloody Hospital Thriller [Tribeca] Bui Hoai-Tran May 28, 2020 /Film June 20, 2020 Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting also lauded Bettis's performance but criticized the film's characterization overall, concluding: "12 Hour Shift is far too ambitious for its own good, playing out like a blood-drenched yet unfocused comedy of frustrating errors."https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3613613/tribeca-review-12-hour-shift-escalates-organ-heist-violent-yet-unfocused-comedy-errors/ [Review] '12 Hour Shift' Escalates Organ Heist into Violent Yet Unfocused Comedy of Errors Navarro Meagan April 21, 2020 Bloody Disgusting June 20, 2020 References External links 10309552 12_hour_shift Category:2020 English-language films Category:American black comedy films Category:American comedy thriller films Category:American heist films Category:Films set in hospitals Category:Films set in 1999 Category:Films set in Arkansas Category:Films about organ trade Category:Films postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic Category:2020 films Category:2020 black comedy films Category:2020 horror thriller films Category:2020 comedy horror films Category:2020 American films Category:English-language comedy horror films Category:English-language horror thriller films Category:Magnet Releasing films