• Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, SciFi/Fantasy
  • Release Date: 05/09/2008
  • Running Time: 117 mins
  • Director: Tarsem Singh
  • Cast: Lee Pace, Justine Waddell, Catinca Untaru, Kim Uylenbroek, Aiden Lithgow, Sean Gilder, Ronald France, Andrew Roussouw, Michael Huff, Grant Swanby
  • Producer: Tarsem Singh
  • Writer: Dan Gilroy, Nico Soultanakis
  • Distributor: Roadside Attractions
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Box Office

  1. Tropic Thunder, 14.6 million, 86.9 million
  2. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  3. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  4. Babylon A.D., 11.5 million, 11.5 million
  5. The Dark Knight, 11.1 million, 504.8 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. The House Bunny, 10.2 million, 29.7 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Traitor, 10.0 million, 11.5 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Death Race, 7.9 million, 24.7 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. Disaster Movie, 6.9 million, 6.9 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Mamma Mia!, 5.4 million, 132.5 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. Pineapple Express, 4.4 million, 80.8 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, 3.8 million, 30.7 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

The Fall

Something like a pain-fueled, R-rated Princess Bride, The Fall straddles the intertwined worlds of storytelling and story. One half is a child’s-eye-view tour of the convalescent wing of a Los Angeles hospital, set during the infancy of the film industry. Heartbroken-to-the-brink-of-suicide stuntman Roy (Lee Pace) finds himself fabricating a tale about a band of brethren brigands to entertain a recuperating nine-year-old girl (Catinca Untaru, so adorable that I vacillated between feeling saccharine-sick and wanting to adopt her). The other half of the film involves the girl’s visualization of this improvised bedtime story, as the multinational, one-dimensional bandits sally forth in billowing slo-mo on an epic journey to topple a tyrannical governor. As Roy’s depression deepens, the story darkens accordingly. Director Tarsem, a commercial-shoot hired gun whose first and last feature until now was 2000’s The Cell, grabbed vistas for his bloviated pictorialist fantasia on cross-continental on-location shoots, pulling together a supersaturated, border-blurring National Geographic travelogue of steppes, deserts, and Ottoman extravagance (the director’s Indian origin gives the movie’s references to Orientalism an interesting twist). If the human details are often problematic, the IMAX-grade bombast, ceremonial camera, and Jodorowsky-esque eclecticism still combine for a singular spectacle. — Nick Pinkerton

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