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Falling Down

1993

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Story
On the day of his daughter's birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster is trying to get to the home of his estranged ex-wife to see his daughter. His car breaks down, so he leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. He goes to a convenience store and tries to get some change for a phone call, but the Korean owner does not oblige, tipping Foster over the edge. The unstable Foster, so frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

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Release Date
February 26, 1993

Runtime
1 hours and 53 minutes (113 minutes)

Cast

Michael Douglas
William 'D-Fens' Foster

Robert Duvall
Detective Prendergast

Barbara Hershey
Elizabeth 'Beth' Travino

Rachel Ticotin
Sandra

Frederic Forrest
Nick, the Nazi Surplus Store Owner

Tuesday Weld
Amanda Prendergast

Raymond J. Barry
Captain Yardley

John Diehl
Dad at Back Yard

D.W. Moffett
Detective Lydecker

Richard Montoya
Detective Sanchez

Steve Park
Detective Brian

Kimberly Scott
Detective Jones

Lois Smith
Mrs. Foster / William's Mother

Joey Hope Singer
Adele Foster-Travino

Ebbe Roe Smith
Guy on Freeway

Michael Paul Chan
Mr. Lee

Karina Arroyave
Angie

Dedee Pfeiffer
Sheila at Whammyburger

Vondie Curtis-Hall
Not Economically Viable Man

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Annoyance
By Jack Anderson

on August 24, 2019

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I never liked Joel Schumacher cinema and this movie did nothing to change my mind. Wanting to watch a film I had never seen with Michael Douglas, I ended up playing this film and I hated from the very first minute. While I can somehow understand the concept, I can easily say it does not work one bit. First, we would expect the main protagonist to be a victim of the story. But somehow, he ends up assaulting store owners and shooting at people.
The concept is that the character would freak out because of the little annoyances of the daily life. The problem is that it simply does not work.

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I give it 2 out of 10. Very bad. The movie itself is an annoyance.

Rob

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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