Falling Uphill (2012)

Plotzle Expert · Puzzle #4 · April 9, 2026 · Comedy / Drama

Six plot descriptions for Falling Uphill (2012). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A man quits his finance job to become a potter but his bowls keep collapsing in the kiln, leading him to sell the failures as abstract art to confused gallery patrons.
2. An optimistic life coach moves to San Francisco and discovers his only clients are people more successful than him, which makes his relentlessly positive advice sound increasingly absurd and irrelevant.
3. Two middle-aged brothers inherit their father's bankrupt ski resort in Vermont and decide to rebrand it as a summer destination while living in adjacent storage closets and bickering constantly.
4. A recovering alcoholic joins a hiking club to meet new friends and accidentally becomes the group's leader when everyone assumes his nervous rambling contains profound wisdom about life.
5. A woman starts dating her physical therapist during rehab for a broken ankle but realizes she keeps inventing new injuries just to continue seeing him and postpone real commitment conversations.
6. A man living with his female roommate realizes he loves her but must move back to his parents' home, so he struggles to confess his feelings before leaving.