Fall Time

This article is about the film. For the electronics concept, see fall time.

Fall Time is a 1995 film starring Mickey Rourke, David Arquette, Stephen Baldwin and Sheryl Lee, directed by Paul Warner and co-written by Paul Skemp and Steve Alden.^[1] It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995.^[1]

Fall Time
Movie poster
Directed by	Paul Warner
Written by	Steve Alden Paul Skemp
Produced by	Edward Bates
Starring	Mickey Rourke David Arquette Stephen Baldwin Sheryl Lee
Cinematography	Mark J. Gordon
Edited by	Steven Nevius
Music by	Hummie Mann
Production companies	Capitol Films Live Entertainment Bates Entertainment
Release date	January 1995 (1995-01)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4 million

Plot

In the 1950s in rural Wisconsin, a trio of young friends, David, Tim and Joe, stage a prank murder in front of a local bank where a real life robbery, led by criminals and gay lovers, Leon and Florence, is going down.

After the crime is botched, Florence forces Tim to rob the bank himself and take as a hostage the bank loan officer Patty, who is in on the robbery, but the plan goes wildly wrong and morphs into macabre bloodbath.

Principal cast

• David Arquette as David
• Mickey Rourke as Florence Nightingale
• Stephen Baldwin as Leon
• Jason London as Tim
• Sheryl Lee as Patty / Carol
• Jeff Gardner as Ken
• Steve Alden as Officer Lyle
• Michael Edelstein as Bank Manager
• Richard K. Olsen as Officer Duane

Critical reception

Although it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival it lost to The Brothers McMullen.

Todd McCarthy of Variety did not care for the film:

"There's material here for a film, at most, half the length of Fall Time, a thoroughly pedestrian crime drama."^[1]

Glenn Kenny of Entertainment Weekly wrote:

"Think that the idea of Mickey Rourke and Stephen Baldwin playing a pair of gay psychos sounds bad? You should only experience the reality."^[2]

Kenny also dubbed the film as "pointless sadism and tiresome pseudoexistential philosophizing." adding, "Unless you’re really interested in hearing Rourke call Baldwin ”honey,” avoid Fall Time at all costs.^[2]