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The Fall

A little blessing in disguise.

7.6 / 10

119 minutes

2008-01-03

English

US

Actors :

Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Jeetu Verma, Marcus Wesley, Leo Bill, Julian Bleach, Justine Waddell, Kim Uylenbroek, Aiden Lithgow, Ronald France, Emil Hostina, Sean Gilder, Daniel Caltagirone, Robin Smith, Andrew Roussouw

Description

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

Reviews

Andres Gomez

Andres Gomez

6/23/2021, 3:57:23 PM

Maybe too ambitious this drama told through a children's tale. Photography is great, though.

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

10/20/2024, 5:19:47 PM

This is quite an enjoyable depiction of some multi-lingual Arabian Nights-style scenarios as we find "Roy" (Lee Pace) in an hospital in 1920s Los Angeles. He had previously been a movie stuntman but an accident has robbed him of the use of his legs and so with medical science being somewhat limited, he is pretty much bedridden. Also in the hospital is the young "Alexandria" (Catinca Untaru) who is...