The Big Fall (1997 film)

The Big Fall
	Video cover
Directed by	C. Thomas Howell
Produced by	Gaby K. Malouf; Joseph Merhi; Richard Pepin;
Written by	William Applegate Jr.;
Starring	C. Thomas Howell; Sophie Ward; Jeff Kober; Sam Seder; Justin Lazard; Kathy Griffin;
Music by	Gardner Cole; Simeon Spiegel;
Cinematography	Jürgen Baum;
Edited by	David Molino; Dennis M. O'Connor;
Distributed by	PM Entertainment Group
Release date	April 11, 1997 (HBO); October 14, 1997 (US video premiere)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Big Fall is a 1997 American neo-noir action-drama film directed by and starring C. Thomas Howell.[1] It was released direct to video on October 14, 1997, having previously aired on HBO in April 1997.[2][3]

Cast

C. Thomas Howell as Blaise Rybeck
Sophie Ward as Emma Roussell
Jeff Kober as Johnny 'Axe' Roosevelt
Sam Seder as Gary Snider
Justin Lazard as Agent Bill Dickson
Titus Welliver as Moe
Buzz Belmondo as Brody
Darren Dalton as Larry
Joanne Baron as Mrs. Brody
William Applegate Jr. as Agent Wilcox
Steve DeRelian as Echo
Kathy Griffin as Sally

Reception

In his review, Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club wrote "The script doesn't do Howell any favors, with its wide selection of stock characters and predictable twist." However, he remarked that "Howell's direction is surprisingly competent." He also labelled Howell's lead role in the film as "unintentionally hilarious", claiming "The eternally boyish and effeminate former teen star can't help but inspire chuckles as he spits out supposedly witty tough-guy banter and gritty narration in a silly Bogart-esque mumble that needs to be heard to be believed."[4]

gollark: I've heard that QWERTY was designed to slow you down and I don't think it's true.

gollark: Not ready how?

gollark: I mean, if my laptop gets hacked or something, people can at least not irreversibly overwrite my brain, only... delete my notes and stuff.

gollark: I'm pretty scared of brain implants because they would probably involve computer systems of some kind with read/write access to my brain. And computers/software seem to have more !!FUN!! security problems every day.

gollark: Personally, I blame websites and the increasingly convoluted web standards for browser performance issues. Websites with a few tens of kilobytes of contents to a page often pull in megabytes of giant CSS and JS libraries for no good reason, and browsers are regularly expected to do a lot of extremely complex things. With Unicode even text rendering is very hard.

References

"C. THOMAS HOWELL HOSTS NEW SERIES "CMT'S ALL JACKED UP" PREMIERING AUGUST 22". www.cmtpress.com. Retrieved Jul 16, 2020.
Florida Today, April 20, 1997, p. 189
http://lowellledger.kdl.org/The%20Lowell%20Ledger/1997/04_April/04-16-1997.pdf
"The Big Fall". The A.V. Club. Retrieved Jul 16, 2020.

External links

The Big Fall on IMDb
The Big Fall at Rotten Tomatoes

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[1] "C. THOMAS HOWELL HOSTS NEW SERIES "CMT'S ALL JACKED UP" PREMIERING AUGUST 22". www.cmtpress.com. Retrieved Jul 16, 2020.

[2] Florida Today, April 20, 1997, p. 189

[3] ttp://lowellledger.kdl.org/The%20Lowell%20Ledger/1997/04_April/04-16-1997.pdf

[4] "The Big Fall". The A.V. Club. Retrieved Jul 16, 2020.