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Fall is a 2022 survival thriller film directed and co-written by Scott Mann. Starring Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, Mason Gooding, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the film follows two women who climb a 2,000-foot tall radio tower and get stranded at the top with no way down.

Fall
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Scott Mann
Written by	Scott Mann Jonathan Frank
Produced by	Christian Mercuri James Harris Mark Lane Scott Mann David Haring
Starring	Grace Caroline Currey Virginia Gardner Mason Gooding Jeffrey Dean Morgan Darrell Dennis
Cinematography	Miguel "MacGregor" Olaso
Edited by	Rob Hall
Music by	Tim Despic
Production companies	Tea Shop Productions BuzzFeed Studios Capstone Pictures Flawless
Distributed by	Lionsgate
Release date	August 12, 2022 (2022-08-12) (United States)
Running time	107 minutes
Countries	United States United Kingdom[1]
Language	English
Budget	$3 million[2]
Box office	$16.4 million[3][4]

Fall was theatrically released in the United States on August 12, 2022, by Lionsgate Films. The film had grossed $16 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Mann's direction, the atmosphere, cinematography, suspense, and the performances of Currey and Gardner, but criticized its screenplay, special effects and pacing.

Plot

Adrenaline junkies and best friends, Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) and Hunter (Virginia Gardner), are climbing a mountain with Becky's husband, Dan (Mason Gooding), who loses his footing and falls to his death. Nearly a year later, Becky is depressed and an alcoholic, and has estranged herself from her father, James (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), because he suggested that Dan was not the right guy for her. Just before the anniversary of Dan's tragic death, Hunter invites her to climb the decommissioned 2,000 foot (610 m) B67 TV tower in the desert where she can scatter her deceased husband's ashes as a form of therapy. Becky at first refuses, then changes her mind and agrees to go so that she can finally move on from Dan's death.

The next day, Hunter and Becky begin the climb. At the top, Becky scatters Dan's ashes, finally letting him go. As they begin the climb down, however, the corroded ladder breaks apart, stranding them several hundred feet above the next intact section. Moreover, the bag with their water has fallen onto a communications dish, a good distance below and far beyond their rope's reach. Hunter is confident that emergency services will have heard the crash of the ladder and be on their way, but help never arrives. They try to use their cellphones, but suspect that radio interference from the antenna is blocking the signal. Hunter sends a message to her 60,000 internet followers for help and drops her phone off the tower, packed inside one of her shoes, but the padding is insufficient, and the cellphone is destroyed when it hits the ground.

The pair notice an RV nearby, with two men camping. They wait until dark and fire a flare gun found at an emergency box at the top of the tower. The men see it, but instead of helping them, they steal Hunter's Ford Bronco and drive off. As night falls, Becky notices a tattoo on Hunter's ankle. It is the number code "1-4-3" that Dan used to tell Becky he loved her. Hunter tearfully admits to a four-month affair that Dan drunkenly initiated and continued until his wedding day, but Becky is unmoved by Hunter's apologies. The next day, as penance for her affair, Hunter offers to climb down and get the water before they die of thirst. Back at the top, Hunter encourages Becky to use a drone to carry a written message for help to the diner a few miles away, but it is hit by a semi truck before it reaches the diner.

In a brief lucid moment, Becky, delirious from the lack of food and water, realizes that she has hallucinated Hunter's presence for days after Hunter died from a fall onto the antenna dish. The next day, Becky is awakened by a vulture gnawing at her wounded leg and kills it, eating it for sustenance. In one last attempt to get help, Becky climbs down to the dish, sends a text message to her father, then puts the phone into Hunter's corpse and pushes it off the tower. After receiving the message, James alerts the emergency services, rushes to the tower, and reconciles with his daughter.

Cast

• Grace Caroline Currey as Becky Connor
• Virginia Gardner as Shiloh Hunter
• Mason Gooding as Danyal ‘Dan’ Zaffar
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan as James Connor
• Darrell Dennis as Randhir ‘Randy’ Ahuja

Production

Filming

Originally the film had been intended as a short. According to director Scott Mann, the idea came to him while he was shooting Final Score at a stadium in the U.K.: "We were filming at height, and off camera we got into this interesting conversation about height and the fear of falling and how that's inside of all of us, really, and how that can be a great device for a movie." Fall was filmed in IMAX format in the Shadow Mountains, in California's Mojave Desert. The look of the fictitious B67 tower in the film was inspired by the real KXTV/KOVR Tower radio tower in Walnut Grove, California, which is also over 2,000 feet high and one of the tallest structures in the world. According to director Scott Mann, the filmmakers had considered green screen or digital sets, but ultimately opted for the real thing. They decided to build the upper portion of the tower on top of a mountain so that the actors would really appear to be thousands of feet in the air, even though in real life they were never more than a hundred feet off the ground. Filming was difficult, because often weather such as lightning and strong winds would pose a challenge.[5][6] The film cost $3 million to produce.[2]

Post-production

Although the film was produced by Tea Shop Productions and Capstone Pictures, once production finished, Lionsgate Films acquired the film's distribution rights without a minimum guarantee for the producers. After it did well in test screenings, Lionsgate decided to release it in theaters.[7] They ordered the crew to change or remove over 30 uses of the word "fuck" from the film so it could earn a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association instead of an R-rating, to increase profitability. As reshooting the scenes would have been time-consuming and expensive, they turned to Flawless, a company established in 2021 by Nick Lynes and Fall director Scott Mann, to deepfake the actor's faces and artificially redub the "fuck"s they said to PG-13-acceptable epithets like "freaking." The first project to use Flawless's services, Fall eventually received a PG-13 rating. According to Mann, "neural reshoots" were completed within two weeks during the final stages of post-production.[2][8]

Release

The film was released in theaters in the United States on August 12, 2022, by Lionsgate.[9] Lionsgate spent $4 million to release and promote the film.[7]

The film was released digitally on September 27, 2022, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release on October 18, 2022.[10]

Reception

Box office

In the United States and Canada, Fall was released alongside Mack & Rita and the wide expansion of Bodies Bodies Bodies, and was projected to gross $1–2 million from 1,548 theaters in its opening weekend.[11] It made $923,000 on its first day,[12] and went on to debut to $2.5 million, finishing 10th at the box office.[13] In its second weekend it made $1.3 million, dropping 47%.[14]

Critical response

On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 78% of 134 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The critical consensus reads, "Fundamentally absurd yet as evocatively minimalist as its title, Fall is a sustained adrenaline rush for viewers willing to suspend disbelief."[15] Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 62 out of 100, based on reviews from 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[16] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak gave the film a 69% overall positive score, with 44% saying they would definitely recommend it.[13]

References

External links

• Official website
• Fall at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Fall (2022)

Fall ist ein US-amerikanisch-britischer Spielfilm aus dem Jahr 2022 von Scott Mann mit Grace Caroline Currey und Virginia Gardner. In den USA kam der Survivalthriller am 12. August 2022 in die Kinos.[1][2]

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- [en] Fall (2022 film)

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[es] Fall (película de 2022)

Fall (en español, Caída) es una película de thriller y supervivencia estadounidense de 2022, escrita y dirigida por Scott Mann. Tiene como protagonistas a Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, Mason Gooding y Jeffrey Dean Morgan. El filme sigue a Becky y a Hunter, dos amigas que, tras la muerte del esposo de la primera, deciden buscar un poco de aventura escalando una torre de radio a más de 610 metros, pero cuando la escalera para bajar se rompe, deberán intentar todo lo posible para sobrevivir.

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[ru] Вышка (фильм, 2022)

«Вышка» (англ. Fall) — американский фильм 2022 года жанра фильм-выживание компании Lionsgate Films, режиссёр Скотт Манн[en]. В США фильм вышел 12 августа 2022 года[4].

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