The Fall

The Fall

The Fall

7.6/ 10

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2008

Release Year

117 min

Runtime

Adventure

Fantasy

Drama

Overview

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.

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Keywords

suicide attempt

stuntman

remake

morphine

hospital

patient

bandit

filmmaking

storytelling

1920s

grim

old hollywood

loving

playful

introspective

audacious

exuberant

hopeful

vibrant

Trailer

Cast

Lee Pace

Lee Pace

Roy Walker

Justine Waddell

Justine Waddell

Nurse Evelyn / Sister Evelyn

Daniel Caltagirone

Daniel Caltagirone

Sinclair / Governor Odious

Leo Bill

Leo Bill

Darwin / Orderly

Sean Gilder

Sean Gilder

Walt Purdy

Julian Bleach

Julian Bleach

Mystic / Orange Picker

Marcus Wesley

Marcus Wesley

Otta Benga / Ice Delivery Man

Robin Smith

Robin Smith

Luigi / One Legged Actor

Jeetu Verma

Jeetu Verma

Indian / Orange Picker

Catinca Untaru

Catinca Untaru

Alexandria

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Reviews(3)

7.7avg rating

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Andres Gomez

@tanty

January 14, 2014

6

6/10

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

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

October 20, 2024

7

7/10

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,…

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@davibi02

September 3, 2026

10

10/10

A visual masterpiece with surprising depth. It has arguably the best child acting performance ever put on film, and unarguably the best location scouting.