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7.6In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
Released: 2006-09-09117 minDir: Tarsem SinghAdventure, Fantasy, DramaBudget: $30.0MBox office: $4.0M
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Cast
- Lee Pace as Roy Walker
- Justine Waddell as Nurse Evelyn / Sister Evelyn
- Daniel Caltagirone as Sinclair / Governor Odious
- Leo Bill as Darwin / Orderly
- Sean Gilder as Walt Purdy
- Julian Bleach as Mystic / Orange Picker
Themes
- suicide attempt
- stuntman
- remake
- morphine
- hospital
- patient
- bandit
- filmmaking
- storytelling
- 1920s
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