Fresh
The girl and the hospital patients and staff also turn up in his improvised adventure, extravagantly garbed by costume designer Eiko Ishioka.
Bill Stamets, Chicago Reader
The Fall
A little blessing in disguise.
2006 · 1h 59m · R
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Directed by
Tarsem Singh
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.
Director and cast
- Tarsem Singh Director
- Lee Pace as Roy Walker
- Justine Waddell as Nurse Evelyn / Sister Evelyn
- Daniel Caltagirone as Sinclair / Governor Odious
- Kim Uylenbroek as Doctor / Alexander The Great
- Leo Bill as Darwin / Orderly
- Sean Gilder as Walt Purdy
- Julian Bleach as Mystic / Orange Picker
- Ronald France as Otto
- Marcus Wesley as Otta Benga / Ice Delivery Man
- Robin Smith Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
64%
Tomatometer
Fresh
...a movie that not only expected me to pay attention, it assumed that I could.
Mark Bourne, Film.com
Fresh
The pacing drags and the cliched tussle between childhood innocence and adult disillusionment can only go one way. Better to experience it than think about it, fair to say.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Rotten
Pace and Untaru generate an unforced chemistry that makes them pleasant company for a couple of hours, but they almost work against the movie's need to establish narrative tension. They appear to be having such a good time that Roy's self-destructive impu
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Fresh
An achingly beautiful movie and a triumph of location scouting, with more cosmopolitan spectacle than the past three Indiana Jones and James Bond movies combined.
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
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