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Bolstered by new friendships forged under sudden and tragic circ*mstances, high schooler Vada (Jenna Ortega) begins to reinvent herself, while re-evaluating her relationships with her family, friends and her view of the world. Moving away from her comfortable family routine, she starts taking chances with a series of quicksilver decisions that test her own boundaries and push her in new directions. As she spends more time with Mia (Maddie Ziegler), they grow closer, and Vada slowly redefines herself through their shared experiences, leading her further away from that day and closer to living her life in the now. "The Fallout" is a compelling exploration of the inexplicable resiliency of life and the hope that emerges out of loss. Read More Read Less

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Empathetic and well-acted, The Fallout uses the aftermath of teen trauma to grapple with the experience of grief.

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The Fallout is a sad but powerful movie that deals with some serious themes in a way that feels heartbreakingly real.

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The Fallout (2021) | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Alissa Wilkinson Vox The Fallout is terrific, and terrifically real. Apr 21, 2022 Full Review The Fallout (2021) | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News “The Fallout” tells a story from the perspective of the survivors and it’s an urgent voice we need to listen to. Rated: 3.5/4 Feb 17, 2022 Full Review The Fallout (2021) | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Robert Levin Newsday The filmmaker takes on a wrenching subject and shapes it into a movie that never looks away, even as it remains painstakingly focused on communicating the impact of those horrors in moments that might otherwise seem ordinary. Rated: 3.5/4 Feb 13, 2022 Full Review The Fallout (2021) | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Yasmine Kandil Discussing Film The film lacks a refined story and on top of that, features performances that do feel awkward and unnatural at times. Rated: 2/5 Jul 15, 2024 Full Review The Fallout (2021) | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jenna Ortega gives a knockout performance in the lead and crafts real chemistry with co-star Maddie Ziegler. Feb 12, 2024 Full Review The Fallout (2021) | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Zoë Rose Bryant Loud and Clear Reviews The Fallout tackles troubling and timely subject matter with harrowing honesty as Jenna Ortega anchors the entire affair with an authentically affecting breakout performance. Rated: 4/5 Sep 1, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Kyle M Writer-director Megan Park’s debut is topically powerful with a surprising authentic edge being performatively equalized and empathetically realized. (A-) Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/17/24 Full Review Oliver R Fantastic show! One of the better ones of recent times. I wasn't a fan of the games as i'm not a fan of Bethesda, but Ella Purnell does a great job in the lead. I was attracted to watching it after hearing that Michael Emerson was casted in it and i'm a big fan of Person of Interest. Walton Goggins will also grow on you and certainly makes a superb side character. Well worth a watch, just remember that it is meant to be strange and not everything will make scientific sense. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 06/19/24 Full Review Peyton D I absolutely loved this series, I binged it over the course of 2 days. The characters are well written and the acting is near-perfect. The casting was excellent, I am waiting with much excitement for season 2! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/19/24 Full Review Andrew G Great show good mix of actors with a with talent, following a well written script. Fallows the lore of the video games well, with the exception the the Ghoul juice that keeps them from going feral. They even do a good job of the cartoony goory from the game. Love it can't wait till season 2. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/19/24 Full Review Alica K great acting. conveys the painful reality of surviving such a tragedy. this is a movie that stays with you. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/22/24 Full Review Jaedyn B Definitely a heart wrenching movie. The build up was great. Jenna Ortega really captured the moments of a teen in this generation coping with situations like this. Also a great ending just to show the reality of it all. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/30/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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Megan Park Director Jenna Ortega Vada Cavell Maddie Ziegler Mia Reed Niles Fitch Quinton Hasland Will Ropp Nick Feinstein John Ortiz Carlos Cavell
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Synopsis Bolstered by new friendships forged under sudden and tragic circ*mstances, high schooler Vada (Jenna Ortega) begins to reinvent herself, while re-evaluating her relationships with her family, friends and her view of the world. Moving away from her comfortable family routine, she starts taking chances with a series of quicksilver decisions that test her own boundaries and push her in new directions. As she spends more time with Mia (Maddie Ziegler), they grow closer, and Vada slowly redefines herself through their shared experiences, leading her further away from that day and closer to living her life in the now. "The Fallout" is a compelling exploration of the inexplicable resiliency of life and the hope that emerges out of loss.

Director
Megan Park

Producer
Shaun Sanghani, Todd Lundbohm, David Brown, Rebecca Miller, Cara Shine, Joannie Burstein, Giulia Prenna

Screenwriter
Megan Park

Production Co
SSS Entertainment, SSS Film Capital, Clear Horizon

Rating
R (Teen Drug and Alcohol Use|Language Throughout)

Genre
Drama

Original Language
English

Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 27, 2022

Runtime
1h 32m

Sound Mix
Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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Is Fallout a true story? ›

The Fallout plot

While 'The Fallout' is not based on a true story, the film's subject matter is terrifyingly real and affects numerous lives. According to The Washington Post, school shootings are a crisis that's unique to America, primarily due to the country's gun culture and firearm laws.

Is The Fallout series appropriate? ›

Lots of sexual things, male backside nudity and female breasts, etc, cannibalism, suicide, drug injections, etc. As an adult, I could watch it with my husband, but not with kids or friends. It was just uncomfortable and I found myself skipping more and more of the filth as the show went on.

Is The Fallout for 13 year olds? ›

The Fallout is a film about teenagers, who are experiencing the aftermath of a school shooting. The film is fine for teens, but for mature ones.

Does The Fallout have inappropriate content? ›

Parents need to know that The Fallout is a poignant, intense drama about a diverse group of teens experiencing grief after going through the trauma of a school shooting. Mature content includes drug use and drinking by teens, strong language ("f--k," "s--t," and more), kissing, implied sex, sounds of gunshots

Why did Vada start crying at the end of Fallout? ›

However, this moment is interrupted by a news alert about another school shooting in Ohio. The news returns Vada to her trauma, and she is roiled in emotional pain as the movie closes, with the sounds over a black screen suggesting that she is having a panic attack.

Who was the killer in Fallout? ›

Whether you accuse about the embezzling or about the true secret, the jig will be up: Julianna is not the killer - Ezra is. He killed Julianna when she found out about the embezzling of her money, and then he used the robobrain's voice modulation to change places.

What year is Fallout set in? ›

Officially the Fallout show is set in the year 2296, which takes place later than any other Fallout game currently released. For example, Fallout 4 takes place in the year 2287, while Fallout: New Vegas is set in the year 2281, a full 15 years prior to the events of the show.

Will there be a season 2 of Fallout? ›

The show has been renewed for season 2 following record-breaking viewership numbers at Amazon Prime Video, and we're going to the legendary New Vegas and the Mojave Desert next time. The show's story takes place more than 200 years after the Great War of 2077, in which humanity almost wiped itself out.

What is the storyline of the fallout? ›

Years after a nuclear apocalypse devastates America, a violent raid by bandits on an underground fallout shelter forces one of its residents to set out into a barren wasteland filled with radiation, mutated monsters, and a lawless society of those who remained on the surface.

Is the Fallout show gory? ›

While the show is filled with many bloody and gory killings, much like the video game, the violence is never taken too seriously or portrayed in a sad*stic way. Huge co*ckroaches is repeatably showen which is very uncomfortable for those with insect phobia.

Can a 14 year old play Fallout? ›

A great game for 14+

This a great game for kids 14 and older. Besides the M rating, this game can be good for kids because they have the choice to be a good person, or a bad person. They will revive the proper outcome based on their choice.

What age is fallout based on? ›

While Fallout is based on the future visions of the 1950s, it is not the 1950s transposed to the future.

Was Fallout a real thing? ›

And while Fallout is a fictional depiction of nuclear war that's heavy on the sci-fi, nuclear warfare itself is not off the table in reality.

What is The Fallout show based on? ›

Fallout, the most recent, is based on Bethesda's long-running role playing video game series of the same name. Debuting to critical acclaim, the series provides a startlingly forensic level of faithfulness in its recreation of the game's dense world and mechanics.

Is Fallout London a real thing? ›

Fallout: London is a total conversion mod developed by Team FOLON for Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 4.

How true is Fallout show to the game? ›

The show's take on the timeline of Fallout does not technically contradict anything we know (though there is at least one blackboard that caused a lot of confusion), but it does set things up in a different way than Fallout fans will be familiar with.

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