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When a Man Falls | 
| Director: Ryan Eslinger
Actors: Timothy Hutton, Sharon Stone, Dylan Baker, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Nicholas Elia
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 41113
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 86 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 68103567
UPC: 025195028394
EAN: 0025195028394
ASIN: B000XT1P5M
Theatrical Release Date: August 1, 2007
Release Date: February 5, 2008
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Product Description
When a lonely housewife (Emmy winner Sharon Stone) faces the reality of her dying marriage to Gary (Timothy Hutton) she seeks comfort in highly unlawful and forbidden activities. While Gary takes to drinking away his troubles he doesn't realize that things are falling apart around him until it's too late. When a Man Falls is a gripping psychological thriller sure to keep you guessing until the end!System Requirements:Running Time: 90 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/LOVE & ROMANCE Rating: R UPC: 025195028394 Manufacturer No: 68103567
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Though marketed as a Sharon Stone thriller, this solemn chamber piece revolves around three men. One evening at work, Gary (Timothy Hutton in ever-present baseball cap) runs into night janitor Bill (Dylan Baker in oversized spectacles). Gary and Travis (Pruitt Taylor Vince) used to tease Bill, a classical-music enthusiast, in high school. The encounter spurs Gary to reconnect with Travis, with whom he lost touch after the latter was involved in an automobile accident (for which he blames himself). Together, they drink and commiserate over their lonely lives; meanwhile, Gary's neglected wife, Karen (an uncharacteristically disheveled Stone), takes to sulking and shoplifting. Bill becomes preoccupied with his pretty neighbor, Sadie (Stacie Bono), and her abusive relationship (in his dreams, Bill saves Sadie from her attacker). A senseless tragedy forces these isolated individuals to face their fears once and for all. Originally known as When a Man Falls in the Forest, then When a Man Falls, the follow-up to Ryan Eslinger's Madness and Genius moves too slowly to generate suspense, while the characters lack sufficient development for their catharsis to have the desired impact. (An absence of personal touches, like portraits and mementos, contributes an air of artifice.) Despite their efforts, this leaves the actors stranded at times, particularly Baker, whose Bill is too bizarre to inspire much sympathy. Of the leads, Vince makes the best impression--would that Eslinger had concentrated more of the story on his character. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Hopeless August 7, 2008
Dimension (New Jersey)
I see that a couple of reviewers were kind enough to award some extra stars for the potential of a film like this one. Sorry, but every movie has the potential to be a good one; but when it is poorly scripted, poorly plotted and poorly acted, it will be a horrible film. This is a horrible, horrible film, which wanders as aimlessly as its characters. I seem to be beating a dead horse, but I felt compelled to add my voice to the chorus of those who literally felt cheated by the misrepresentation of what this film aimed to be. Or, is that the point? Is all of life a misrepresentation; perhaps a sort of waking dream? What if . . . nah, don't bother -- the message is hopeless.
When A Movie Viewer Falls July 20, 2008
E. Esq (Los Angeles, CA USA)
God-awful movie. I was first attrated to the movie at a popular video store because of the actors and the description on the movie sleeve. However, the description is a complete misrepresentation: "When a lonely housewife (Sharon Stone) faces the reality of her dying marriage to Gary (Timothy Hutton), she seeks comfort in unlawful and forbidden activities." Her role was minor and we see her shoplifting twice. On the front of the sleeve: "WHEN A MAN FALLS in the end . . . she got what she wanted." Well, I didn't see it coming and I never saw it coming because we don't really know what she wanted. Then, the final paragraph, "WHEN A MAN FALLS is a gripping psychological thriller sure to keep you mesmerized right up until the shocking end!" The only thing I wanted to grip was my own throat for putting myself through this unthrilling unpsychological bore of an incoherent mess.
Really boring June 23, 2008
Guy Campeau (Stoneham, Québec Canada)
Don't your time and save your money, for sure, one of the most boring you can look at. I can't imagine someone would buy it.
 When a man falls April 22, 2008
R. Henry (Sanford Lake, Michigan USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was the worst movie I have seen, the star make, it almost makes us not want to purchase any more of her movies.
Say, wha? February 20, 2008
David G. Apetz (NEW YORK, NY USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Um, can you say one of the worst movies ever? The only man that fell here was me..falling for the price of renting this horrible movie! Lifeless, dreary, and humorless. Perhaps has something to do with the depressing plot: A loser janitor (Dylan Baker), listens to opera and has emotional and social issues. Fast forward to he meets up with another loser (Hutton), and his loser shop-lifting wife (Stone). Stone looks stoned. Stone looks yucky. Somewhere I lost interest. I think it was like right after the opening credits. No. Maybe it was the awful acting. Still, it could have been the lack of a coherent plot, I don't really know or care. But if you want a "gripping psychological thriller" as the box claims, then you'll do yourself a favor and keep looking. What a waste of talent.
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