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'{{Short description|Survival film by Scott Mann}} {{Use American English|date=August 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox film | image = Fall (2022 film).jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = [[Scott Mann (director)|Scott Mann]] | writer = {{Plainlist| * Scott Mann * Jonathan Frank }} | producer = {{Plainlist| * Christian Mercuri * James Harris * Mark Lane * Scott Mann * David Haring }} | starring = {{Plainlist| * [[Grace Caroline Currey]] * [[Virginia Gardner]] * [[Mason Gooding]] * [[Jeffrey Dean Morgan]] }} | music = [[Tim Despic]] | cinematography = [[MacGregor (filmmaker)|Miguel "MacGregor" Olaso]] | editing = Rob Hall | studio = {{Plainlist| * Tea Shop Productions * [[BuzzFeed Studios]] * Capstone Pictures * Flawless }} | distributor = [[Lionsgate Films|Lionsgate]] | released = {{Film date|2022|8|12|United States}} | runtime = 107 minutes | country = {{Plainlist| * United States * United Kingdom<ref>{{cite web |url=https://letterboxd.com/film/fall-2022/details/ |title=Fall (2022) |website=letterboxd.com |access-date=September 6, 2022}}</ref> }} | language = English | budget = $3 million<ref name="Spangler" /> | gross = $16 million<ref name="NUM">{{Cite The Numbers |title=Fall (2022) |id=Fall-(2022) |access-date=October 12, 2022}}</ref><ref name="BOM">{{Cite Box Office Mojo |title=Fall (2022) |id=15325794 |access-date=October 12, 2022}}</ref> }} '''''Fall''''' is a 2022 [[survival film|survival]] [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] film directed and co-written by [[Scott Mann (director)|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'' 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== [[Novelty seeking|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 [[clinical depression|depressed]] and [[Alcoholism|alcoholic]], and has estranged herself from her father, James ([[Jeffrey Dean Morgan]]), because he suggested that Dan was not the right guy for her. Hunter invites her to climb the decommissioned {{convert|2000|foot|meter}} B67 TV tower in the desert. 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 [[Cremation|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 [[satellite dish|communications dish]], many yards below. 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 discover that radio interference from the [[Antenna (radio)|antenna]] is blocking the signal. Hunter sends a message 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]]. The men see it, but instead of helping them, they steal Hunter's [[jeep]] 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.your mum is my mummy 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 the [[Quadcopter|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 lures a vulture towards her 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 * [[Virginia Gardner]] as Shiloh Hunter * [[Mason Gooding]] as Dan * [[Jeffrey Dean Morgan]] as James * [[Darrell Dennis]] as Randy ==Production== ===Filming=== [[File:CA KXTV KOVR Tower USA.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[KXTV/KOVR Tower]] in California inspired the look of the radio tower in the film.]] Originally the film had been intended as a short. According to director Scott Man, the idea came to him while he was shooting ''[[Final Score (2018 film)|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.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/how-they-filmed-fall-exclusive/ | title=How they filmed Fall: 'The fear of heights and falling is in us all' }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.insideedition.com/media/videos/director-of-new-fall-movie-says-actors-were-never-more-than-100-feet-high-76375 |title=Director of New ''Fall'' Movie Says Actors Were Never More Than 100 Feet High |date=August 12, 2022 |website=[[Inside Edition]] |access-date=August 16, 2022}}</ref> The film cost $3 million to produce.<ref name="Spangler" /> ===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.<ref name="BOFirstDay">{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/08/box-office-bullet-train-bodies-bodies-bodies-pete-davidson-1235091498/|title=''Bullet Train'' Heading For $12M+ Second Weekend During Sluggish Summer Frame – Friday PM Update|date=August 12, 2022|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=August 13, 2022}}</ref> 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 (Motion Picture Association)|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 (director)|Scott Mann]], to [[deepfake]] the actor's faces and [[Audio deepfake|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.<ref name="Spangler">{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/lionsgate-fall-deepfake-f-bombs-rating-1235337017/ |title=Lionsgate's ''Fall'' Used Deepfake-Style Tech to Change 30-Plus F-Bombs, Bringing Movie From R to PG-13 Rating |date=August 9, 2022|first=Todd |last=Spangler|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |quote=had a production budget of about $3 million |access-date=August 10, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/08/director-scott-manns-ai-startup-helps-fall-nab-pg-13-rating-2-5m-open-specialty-box-office-1235091858/|title=Director Scott Mann's AI Startup Helps ''Fall'' Nab PG-13 Rating, $2.5M Open – Specialty Box Office|date=August 14, 2022|first=Jill|last=Goldsmith|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=August 14, 2022}}</ref> ==Release== The film was released in theaters in the United States on August 12, 2022, by Lionsgate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/fall-movie-trailer-poster-lionsgate|title=Fall: Exclusive Trailer and Movie Poster Reveal|date=June 8, 2022|first=David|last=Griffin|website=[[IGN]]|access-date=June 9, 2022}}</ref> Lionsgate spent $4 million to release and promote the film.<ref name="BOFirstDay" /> == 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/box-office-fall-bodies-bodies-bodies-1235338276/amp/ |title=Box Office: Lionsgate's Action-Thriller ''Fall'' and A24's ''Bodies Bodies Bodies'' Hope to Benefit From Utter Lack of New Blockbusters |first=Rebecca|last=Rubin|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 10, 2022|access-date=August 10, 2022}}</ref> It made $923,000 on its first day,<ref name=VarietyOpen>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/bodies-bodies-bodies-expansion-bullet-train-second-weekend-1235339309/ |title=''Bullet Train'' Repeating on Top as August Box Office Slows Down |first=J. Kim |last=Murphy |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 13, 2022|access-date=August 13, 2022}}</ref> and went on to debut to $2.5 million, finishing 10th at the box office.<ref name="opening">{{cite web |first=Anthony |last=D'Alessandro |date=August 13, 2022 |title=''Bullet Train'' Second Go-Round Now At $13.3M As Summer 2022 Clocks Lowest Weekend To Date With $64M – Saturday PM Box Office Update |url=https://deadline.com/2022/08/box-office-bullet-train-bodies-bodies-bodies-pete-davidson-1235091498/ |access-date=August 14, 2022 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] }}</ref> In its second weekend it made $1.3 million, dropping 47%.<ref>{{cite web |first=Anthony |last=D'Alessandro |date=August 19, 2022 |title='Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero' Rolling To $17M-$20M Opening; 'Beast' Seeing $10M – Friday Midday Box Office Update |url= https://deadline.com/2022/08/box-office-dragon-ball-super-super-hero-beast-idris-elba-1235096162/ |access-date=August 19, 2022 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] }}</ref> === 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fall |title=Fall |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=September 1, 2022 }}</ref> [[Metacritic]] gave the film a [[weighted average]] score of 62 out of 100, based on reviews from 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."<ref>{{Cite Metacritic |type=movie |id=fall-2022 |title=Fall |access-date=August 14, 2022 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="opening" /> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.lionsgate.com/movies/fall}} * {{IMDb title|tt15325794}} {{Scott Mann}} [[Category:2022 thriller films]] [[Category:2020s English-language films]] [[Category:2020s survival films]] [[Category:American survival films]] [[Category:British survival films]] [[Category:British thriller films]] [[Category:Deepfakes]] [[Category:Films directed by Scott Mann]] [[Category:Films shot in the Mojave Desert]] [[Category:Lionsgate films]] [[Category:2020s American films]]'