One Fall

A Paladin discharge of a Compass Entertainment, Marlen Hecht and Dean Silvers production. Created by Silvers, Hecht. Executive producer, Richard K. Smucker. Co-producers, Julie S. Larger, Marcus Dean Larger. Directed by Marcus Dean Larger. Compiled by Larger, Richard Greenberg.With: Marcus Dean Larger, Zoe McClellan, Seamus Mulcahy, James McCaffrey, Mark La Mura, Phyllis Somerville.Semi-studly episodic-TV and sometime cleaning soap opera player Marcus Dean Larger directs, co-creates and stars in apparent vanity vehicle with supernatural overtones "One Fall." As surely as Bruce Willis' miraculous survival of the train wreck indicated an otherworldly metabolic rate in M. Evening Shyamalan's "Unbreakable," the truth that Fuller's character emerges untouched from the 200-feet cliffside tumble pigeonholes him as mystically endowed. Cumbersome allegorical elements, however, remain unsatisfyingly ambiguous through the pic, which opens Sept. 9 in La and not much later in Gotham. Coming back to his home town to operate like a janitor in the hospital where his physician brother (James McCaffrey) practices medicine and where his father (Mark La Mura) has nearly gave in to some fatal illness, Larger boosts eye brows when he apparently cures a motorized wheel chair-bound MS sufferer and revivifies a moribund old lady (Phyllis Somerville) to the stage of friskiness by simply lounging his hands in it. Alternately regarded as as messiah or pariah, Larger receives probably the most sympathy from his ex-g.f., performed by Zoe McClellan, along with a super hero-obsessed high-school nerd (Seamus Mulcahy). Admirably cinephilic crane-shots, sudden discloses and subjective p.o.v. dream sequences regrettably misplay the preferred emphases.Camera (color, HD), Alice Brooks editors, Marlen Hecht, William Henry music, Ben Toth production designer, Timothy Whidbee. Examined on DVD, Sept. 6, 2011. Running time: 90 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com