Story Line
In 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.
“A little blessing in disguise.”
Top Cast
Lee Pace
Roy Walker
Justine Waddell
Nurse Evelyn / Sister Evelyn
Daniel Caltagirone
Sinclair / Governor Odious
Leo Bill
Darwin / Orderly
Sean Gilder
Walt Purdy
Julian Bleach
Mystic / Orange Picker
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Rating
7.6/ 10
Release Date
2008-01-03
Runtime
1h 57m
Genres
AdventureFantasyDrama
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User Reviews (3)
Andres Gomez
6/10
•1/14/2014Maybe too ambitious this drama told through a children's tale.
Photography is great, though.
CinemaSerf
7/10
•10/20/2024This is quite an enjoyable depiction of some multi-lingual Arabian Nights-style scenarios as we find "Roy" (Lee Pace) in an hospital in 1920s Los Angeles. He had previously been a movie stuntman but an accident has robbed him of the use of his legs a...
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10/10
•9/3/2026A visual masterpiece with surprising depth. It has arguably the best child acting performance ever put on film, and unarguably the best location scouting.