
At a Los Angeles hospital in the 1920s, Alexandria is a child recovering from a broken arm. She befriends Roy Walker, a movie stunt man with legs paralyzed after a fall. At her request, Roy tells her an elaborate story about six men of widely varied backgrounds who are on a quest to kill a corrupt provincial governor. Between chapters of the story, Roy inveigles Alexandria to scout the hospital's pharmacy for morphine. As Roy's fantastic tale nears its end, Death seems close ... (Full plot summary below)
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At a Los Angeles hospital in the 1920s, Alexandria is a child recovering from a broken arm. She befriends Roy Walker, a movie stunt man with legs paralyzed after a fall. At her request, Roy tells her an elaborate story about six men of widely varied backgrounds who are on a quest to kill a corrupt provincial governor. Between chapters of the story, Roy inveigles Alexandria to scout the hospital's pharmacy for morphine. As Roy's fantastic tale nears its end, Death seems close at hand.
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| Film.comMark Bourne...a movie that not only expected me to pay attention, it assumed that I could. |
| Kaplan vs. KaplanJeanne KaplanIn a world of blockbusters and super-hero movies, one "small" film about five mystical heroes can be more satisfying than all of the others put together. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA movie that you might want to see for no other reason than because it exists. There will never be another like it. |
| About.comMarcy DermanskyMy initial cynicism was steadily broken down, completely undone by a five-year-old Romanian actress named Catinca Untaru. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen...deserves three-and-a-half stars for its dazzling opening sequence alone. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfIf Matthew Barney and Alejandro Jodorowsky were in change of filming a Gay Pride parade, it would be similar to what Fall has to offer visually...As a living, breathing creation, it's dead on arrival. |
| Boxoffice MagazineRay GreeneA paean to the art of storytelling as it existed before mass-produced visual media replaced the spoken word as the primary creative medium. |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelDuane DudekSingh's aesthetic is like a pungent flavor or a fragrance that lingers in the film's Escher-like folds, overwhelming logical narrative and emotional clarity. |
| Orlando SentinelRoger MooreThat's the trouble with candy, the eye kind or the tooth-decaying variety. It's only after you've made a glutton of yourself that you realize you haven't devoured anything particularly filling. |
| Needcoffee.comWidgett WallsWhat seems to be a light fantasy tale about an adult spinning a yarn for a child transcends, and instead becomes a story that is itself primarily about storytelling. |