The Fall

Name: The Fall
Director: Tarsem Singh
Released: 2006-09-09T00:00:00+00:00
Rating: 7.6

2006 · TMDB 7.6

Directed by Tarsem Singh

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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In a 1920s Los Angeles hospital, a bedridden stuntman tells a fantastical story to a young girl with a broken arm. Tarsem Singh's visually stunning film weaves their shared imagination into a tale of adventure, loss, and redemption.

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Lee Pace Justine Waddell Daniel Caltagirone Leo Bill Sean Gilder Julian Bleach Marcus Wesley Robin Smith Jeetu Verma Catinca Untaru Kim Uylenbroek Aiden Lithgow

Director · Tarsem Singh Producer · Nico Soultanakis Producer · Lionel Kopp Producer · Ray Leakey Producer · Tarsem Singh Producer · Josh Robertson Writer · Tarsem Singh Writer · Dan Gilroy Writer · Nico Soultanakis Cinematography · Colin Watkinson Composer · Krishna Levy Editor · Robert Duffy

Runtime: 117 min
Released: 2006-09-09
Studio: Googly Films
Country: United States of America
Language: English
TMDB score: 7.6

Adventure Fantasy Drama

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In a 1920s Los Angeles hospital, a bedridden stuntman tells a fantastical epic to a young girl with a broken arm, weaving a story that becomes their shared escape from pain and loss. Tarsem Singh's film is a visual poem about the power of narrative to heal.