Fell, Jumped or Pushed

2016 • 85 minutes

About this movie

A romantic mockumentary that digs into the bizarre real-¬life disappearance of our director and lead’s (Todd Peters) grandfather Sgt. Elmo Warrick. Quirky characters, offbeat backdrops, and bastardization of reality TV meets early Christopher Guest.

Ratings and reviews

This is a seriously great movie. A movie in a movie. A very clever mock documentary it follows the earnest and hapless Todd (well played by Todd - Very meta) and his crew (Caroline Hall, Jeremy Rabb, Mark Boyett, and Blair Sams ) as they try to make a documentary celebrating strong women. Along the way a cynical and jaded filmmaker (Andre Belgrader) begins to make a documentary about Todd making his documentary and the movie slowly becomes something bigger than any of them could have envisioned. The acting is amazing - so real it is easy to forget you are watching a movie. It smart and funny and wonderfully awkward. I highly recommend it.

I loved this film. It's funny and heartbreaking and, above all, it's REAL--it doesn't fall into easy mockumentary clichés or sentimentality. What really sets it apart, though, is the consistently strong performance of the ensemble cast. I read in other reviews that the actors have a history together, and you can really see it. They have a wonderful chemistry that gives their interactions a real edge and authenticity. Time flew by for me watching this film. I was completely absorbed and invested in Todd's struggle. I hope this group makes another film together soon. I want more!

This clever little film features the hallmark of a good mockumentary: a solid ensemble of actors who create a vivid, zany crew of characters. In this case, they’re brought together to film a documentary that’s destined to change tracks -- if not go off the rails altogether -- as their amateur-but-earnest leader (Todd Peters) wades deeper into his own unfulfillment and his family’s unsolved mystery. And all of this is framed as a documentary-within-a-documentary directed by an Eastern European auteur (the inimitable Andrei Belgrader). This movie is well worth your viewing.