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The Last Fall

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The Last Fall
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 2012-10-26 Limited
  • Running Time: 92 min.
  • Director: Matthew A. Cherry
  • Cast: Lance Gross, Nicole Beharie, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Harry Lennix Jr., Keith David
  • Producers: Scott Hebert, Nikki Love, Ellis Hobbs, Monique Hobbs, Lance Gross, Matthew A. Cherry
  • Writer: Matthew A. Cherry
  • Distributor: ARRAY(0x2dff4d8)
  • Official Site: The Last Fall Official Site

The edict passed down from writing instructors to their students throughout the years-- "Write what you know"-- has created a cultural landscape (not just the literary realm) lousy with first-person narratives that rarely resonate beyond the writer's ego. It's encouraging then that writer-director Matthew A. Cherry, a former NFL wide receiver, has crafted a surprisingly affecting feature debut using the lit-class mantra to illuminate the underbelly of the world of professional football. The Last Fall tracks the spiral of 25-year-old Kyle Bishop (Lance Gross, very good) after he's cut from a low-hanging position on a pro football team. Forced to move in with his hard-bitten, hardworking mother, he suffers mounting humiliations as he comes clean to friends and family about his failure. He's also forced to face how his narcissism has blinded him to ruptures in his family and to the damage inflicted when he left his high school sweetheart behind. The acting is top notch (supporting cast includes black film and TV luminaries Vanessa Bell Calloway, Harry Lennix, Obba Babatundé, and Darrin Dewitt Henson), and Gross’s chemistry with Nicole Beharie (the high school flame) sizzles. A third act that too quickly wraps up loose ends illuminates Cherry's shortcomings as a writer--at times, Fall plays like a sexier after school special--but his facility with actors and feel for his characters' emotional lives mark him as someone to watch.

Ernest Hardy
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