Where to Watch The Shade Online

Looking to watch 'The Shade' in the comfort of your own home? Finding a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the Raphaël Nadjari-directed movie via subscription can be a challenge, so we here at Moviefone want to take the pressure off.

Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription choices - along with the availability of 'The Shade' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into all the details of how you can watch 'The Shade' right now, here are some finer points about the Filmaker, Stolen Car Productions, Whole Nine Productions drama flick.

Released March 25th, 1999, 'The Shade' stars Richard Edson, Lorie Marino, Barbara Haas, Jacob Lavin The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 23 min, and received a user score of 57 (out of 100) on TMDb, which compiled reviews from 3 well-known users.

Curious to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "The first film of New York-based French director Raphael Nadjari is an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Gentle Creature, which had also inspired Une Femme douce of Robert Bresson. The Shade is a drama about a mysterious woman and a pawnbroker who meet in New York. The film begins with Simon, who is alone in his apartment with the corpse of his wife, Anna, who has just committed suicide. In his grief, he remembers the first time he met her, a year ago when she walked into his pawnbroker's shop in Spanish Harlem. Mysterious Anna, who seems to come from nowhere, impresses solitary Simon with her sad beauty, and he proposes to her on their first night out. The Shade is a love story with great psychological insight." .