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Falling Down

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7.4/10 • 3.6K

1993-02-261h 53m

CrimeDramaThriller

The adventures of an ordinary man at war with the everyday world.

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Directors
Joel Schumacher
Writters
Ebbe Roe Smith
Editors
Ebbe Roe Smith, Paul Hirsch

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Michael Douglas

    Michael Douglas

    D-Fens

  2. Robert Duvall

    Robert Duvall

    Prendergast

  3. Barbara Hershey

    Barbara Hershey

    Beth

  4. Rachel Ticotin

    Rachel Ticotin

    Sandra

  5. Tuesday Weld

    Tuesday Weld

    Mrs. Prendergast

  6. Frederic Forrest

    Frederic Forrest

    Surplus Store Owner

  7. Lois Smith

    Lois Smith

    D-Fens' Mother

  8. Ebbe Roe Smith

    Ebbe Roe Smith

    Guy on Freeway

  9. Michael Paul Chan

    Michael Paul Chan

    Mr. Lee

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Rob

Aug 10, 2015

5.5/10

Having just watched this movie I can say that I enjoyed it, not overly so. Its not really a tale of urban reality more that the everyday annoyances that we do nothing about and this guy turns them into a personal insult. Its starts normally enough, stuck in traffic, beep noises and drilling on a hot day, his AC is broken, the window is broken. Instead of just shrugging it off with that Monday feeling he just abandons his car and goes for a walk, to start with its a shop owner with overpriced drinks that gets his shop smashed up a bit, later only when threatened with violence himself does he defend himself against 2 gang members. This is where things start to suddenly go weird, the gang members drive round and stumble across him somehow, (I'm British but I think LA is a little too big for that) then spray bullets in a drive by 20ft away and miss him completely but hit everyone around him and then they promptly crash. He walks over to the car, collects a bag of guns from it then goes and shoots up a burger bar because they are not serving breakfast, which he then changes his mind to lunch anyway and it continues from there. I don't know if this was meant to show some sort of mental brakedown due to his previous life choices but his empathy just disappears. At the start you could relate to the character but the more you watch the more you begin to distance yourself from that notion until you realise you just watched a movie where a guy went round killing people for no reason other than anger at himself for destroying his family life. It leaves me wondering if that was the directors intention or a happy coincidence to push that prospective on the viewer.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$25,000,000.00
Revenue
$40,903,593.00
Keywords
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