 FACT: SPOILER: Rand Peltzer and the dog enter the department store  at dawn. Just a few minutes later, when Gizmo raises the shade to  let the sunlight kill the gremlin, the sunbeam is shining down at a  fairly steep angle, almost 45 degrees. This would place the sun much  higher in the sky than it would be just after dawn, indeed, higher  than it would be even at noon in a Northern state in the middle of  winter.