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Falling Down, 1993

Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall

Directed by: Joel Schumacher

Written by: Ebbe Roe Smith

Language: English

Country: France, USA, UK

Runtime: 113 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:7.6

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The mood of Falling Down is disturbing, tense, and rough. The plot centers around a losing-it hero, obsession, and themes of unfulfillment. It is a drama, thriller, and crime movie. In approach, Falling Down is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. The setting is Los Angeles. Falling Down happens in the 1990s. The movie is known for being essential viewing and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes profanity and violent content.

Summary of Falling Down

A laid-off defense worker, kept from seeing his child on her birthday by a restraining order, looks at the landscape of moral decay in Los Angeles on one hot, congested day and, after being mugged, snaps. What follows is his bitter and pathetic mission of justice, vengeance and vindication that reads uncomfortably like too many news stories. Michael Douglas is identified only by his character's license plate, D-FENS, in this attack on social ills, a film originally seen as the displacement of power felt by many white American males.

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Language:	English
Country:	France, USA, UK
Release date:	26 February 1993
Runtime:	113 min

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Michael Douglas

as William 'D-Fens' Foster

Robert Duvall

as Detective Martin Prendergast

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Rolling Stone

Schumacher could have exploited those tabloid headlines about solid citizens going berserk. Instead, the timely, gripping Falling Down puts a human face on a cold statistic and then dares us to look away. Full Review

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by: Peter Travers

TV Guide

These adventures would be offensive if you could take them seriously, so it's probably good that you can't. Despite a nicely understated performance from Robert Duvall as a cop on Douglas's trail, Falling Down fails to convince on any level. Full Review

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by: Staff (Not Credited)

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Great acting and directing. Interesting character quirks. However, the characters, story and plot are absolutely depraved in most every way. The filmmakers want you to witness humans at their worst both in violence and in relationships. I'm sad that... Read and rate it

21.September.2010
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by: Jon Paul
Jon Paul rated this movie4/10Disappointing

Falling Down 1993

That was 17 years ago and Americans still haven't lerned this is what they are doing to their Nation, Image, Foreign Relations, Currency and economy Worldwide. They are falling down because of their arrogance, they all need Michael Douglas to teach... Read and rate it

24.May.2010
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by: robbygay
robbygay rated this movie10/10Must See

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