The picture is hopeless: hopelessly earnest, hopelessly well-intentioned, hopelessly bad.
Fall to Grace (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 5
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Synopsis: An irate father throws his son's basketball out the window. Follow it to a new girlfriend. A spoiled brat speeds off in her boyfriend's car. Follow it to a bad idea. The good girl is saving up for... An irate father throws his son's basketball out the window. Follow it to a new girlfriend. A spoiled brat speeds off in her boyfriend's car. Follow it to a bad idea. The good girl is saving up for a plane ticket. Follow her as hope takes off. Fall to Grace, a debut film by Mari Marchbanks, has a taut script with an epic heart. Kristofer a Russian Georgian immigrant, is trying to make his way in a new country, a new school and onto the varsity team. Living under the weight of his father's anger and economic hardship, Kristofer keeps himself afloat with a basketball and a flirtatious spirit. But when Sarah flirts back, Kristofer begins to realize he may have come on to the wrong girl. Sarah has her hands full trying to keep her random drug use within the range of an excusable cry for attention, but it's quickly becoming a real problem. Like so many troubles, a stack of money would go a long way toward making things better, but the only available cash lies in a shoebox at the bottom of Jessie's closet and Jessie's Dad is a cop. As these individual stories intersect and collide, heartache ignites into remarkable hope. Fall to Grace reminds us of the invisible threads connecting us to one another, creating a net to catch us when we fall. -- © Green Room Pictures [More]
Director: Mari Marchbanks
Director: Mari Marchbanks
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Reviews for Fall to Grace
Seems to have grown from careful observation, but this could be a case where one story would have trumped many.
Feels like a movie you'd find late at night on a film-festival program, sincere and worthy, yet not quite watchable.
Here are 12 people. Here are their 12 problems. Here are 12 solutions. World peace. The end.
Marchbanks has crafted a genuine portrait of suburban Americana with Fall To Grace, especially with regard to our younger citizenry.
A story with a soap-opera feel, but there is a promising amount of raw talent on display.
Marchbanks captures the essence of a melting pot neighborhood where economics, not race, is the dividing factor.
This is an indie film in the genuine spirit of the word (not some studio-subsidized boutique product), showing compassion while following its own course of low-key redemption.
Like a real neighborhood, it pulses with its own unique heartbeat, and it's one that deserves to be heard.
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