Fall Time
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{{Infobox film
| name = Fall Time
| image = Fall Time Movie Poster.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Movie poster
| director = Paul Warner
| producer = Edward Bates
| writer = {{ubl|Steve Alden|Paul Skemp}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|Mickey Rourke|David Arquette|Stephen Baldwin|Sheryl Lee}}
| music = Hummie Mann
| cinematography = Mark J. Gordon
| editing = Steven Nevius
| studio = {{ubl|Capitol Films|Live Entertainment|Bates Entertainment}}
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1995|01|}}
| runtime = 88 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $4 million
| gross =
}}
Fall Time is a 1995 film starring Mickey Rourke, David Arquette, Stephen Baldwin and Sheryl Lee, directed by Paul Warner and co-written by Paul Skemp and Steve Alden. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995.
Plot
In the 1950s in rural Wisconsin, a trio of young friends, David, Tim and Joe, stage a prank murder in front of a local bank where a real life robbery, led by criminals and gay lovers, Leon and Florence, is going down.
After the crime is botched, Florence forces Tim to rob the bank himself and take as a hostage the bank loan officer Patty, who is in on the robbery, but the plan goes wildly wrong and morphs into macabre bloodbath.
Principal cast
- David Arquette as David
- Mickey Rourke as Florence Nightingale
- Stephen Baldwin as Leon
- Jason London as Tim
- Jonah Blechman as Joe
- Sheryl Lee as Patty / Carol
- Jeff Gardner as Ken
- Steve Alden as Officer Lyle
- Michael Edelstein as Bank Manager
- Richard K. Olsen as Officer Duane
Critical reception
Although it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival it lost to The Brothers McMullen.
Todd McCarthy of Variety did not care for the film:
{{cquote|"There's material here for a film, at most, half the length of Fall Time, a thoroughly pedestrian crime drama."{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/fall-time-1200439996/|author=McCarthy, Todd|title=Fall Time|magazine=Variety|date=January 22, 1995|access-date=March 29, 2025}}}}
Glenn Kenny of Entertainment Weekly wrote:
{{cquote|"Think that the idea of Mickey Rourke and Stephen Baldwin playing a pair of gay psychos sounds bad? You should only experience the reality."{{cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/1995/11/10/fall-time/|title=Fall Time|authorlink=Glenn Kenny|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|author=Kenny, Glenn|date=November 10, 1995}}}}
Kenny also dubbed the film as "pointless sadism and tiresome pseudoexistential philosophizing." adding, "Unless you’re really interested in hearing Rourke call Baldwin ”honey,” avoid Fall Time at all costs.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0113014}}
- {{rotten-tomatoes|fall_time}}
Category:Films set in the 1950s
Category:Films shot in North Carolina
Category:1995 crime drama films
Category:American independent films
Category:1995 directorial debut films
Category:Films scored by Hummie Mann
Category:1995 independent films
Category:1990s English-language films
Category:American crime drama films
Category:English-language independent films
Category:English-language crime films
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