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.
Thelonious Pitt, a daydreaming businessman, goes to the Redwood Forests of California.
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.
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.
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