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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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FAQs

Is Fallout a true story? ›

The Fallout is not based on a true story. School shootings are a tragic reality that continues to haunt modern-day America.

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

Was Mia in love with Vada? ›

In order to cope with her trauma, she takes ecstasy, and Nick has to help her through the resulting high. After another night of drinking, Mia tells Vada that she is falling in love with her, and they have sex.

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.

Why is Fallout so violent? ›

This is an adaptation of a violent video game. Violence is certainly part of the game and the mythology of what this world is.

What year is Fallout set in? ›

Okay, so, what year is it in the Fallout TV series? One thing that we absolutely do know is that everything starts off in 2296, which is 218 years after the Great War of 2077. The show does run for a year, so it ends sometime in 2297, bringing us one year further in the timeline.

Will there be a season 2 of Fallout? ›

Sanders: We've been fortunate because this was the vision all along. I think we're ahead of schedule, in terms of being able to get Season 2 back. We don't have an exact launch date yet, but we've already gotten scripts in hand, and I think the fans of Season 1 will really love where we're going for Season 2.

Is The Fallout a LGBTQ movie? ›

“The Fallout” Review: Jenna Ortega and Maddie Ziegler Explore Queerness and Trauma Together.

Can you watch Fallout with family? ›

The video games that this show is based on include blood, gore, and violence; viewers will find the same elements here. Violence is frequent and brutal. Bloody hand-to-hand combat, lots of guns, and gory wounds are all presented in great detail. Corpses of families, including children, are shown.

What age is Fallout based on? ›

The world of Fallout is set in an alternative universe that diverged after World War II and generally reflects mid-20th-century-style science fiction (the World of Tomorrow) as well as the advancements of the Atomic Age, eventually becoming a retrofuturist vision of Earth before global thermonuclear war happens in the ...

How graphic is the Fallout Show? ›

Strong and gory violence in every single episode with loads of blood. It isn't very realistic or disturbing (much like a Tarantino film) but can be too much for some people especially with the quantity of it and how blood splattered it is.

Is Fallout kid friendly? ›

There is a lot of graphic violence, people die in variously gory ways, never done in a heavy way though. There is some nudity in episode 6 during some weird cult ritual and very briefly in episode 1.

Why was Fallout censored? ›

Due to controversy regarding drug use in Fallout 3, every region censored the game to tone down the drug references. The Japanese release was also edited to relieve concerns about atomic detonation in inhabited areas.

Was Fallout a real thing? ›

Large particles fall to the ground near the explosion site, but lighter particles and gases travel into the upper atmosphere. The particles that are swept up into the atmosphere and fall back down to Earth are called fallout.

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.

Would Fallout happen in real life? ›

Nuclear radiation can cause some mutations, but it probably wouldn't actually happen like that. But that's okay, it's a video game and a TV show, it's supposed to be entertaining — that's fine. The most important thing we can do is to not have a nuclear war in the first place.

How true to the game is Fallout? ›

“There might be a little bit of confusion in some places. But everything that happened in the previous games, including New Vegas, happened. We're very careful about that.” “All I can say is we're threading it tighter there, but the bombs fall just after the events of New Vegas.”

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