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Falling Down
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.
- Original title
- Falling Down
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $25,000,000
- Revenue
- $40,903,593
vylmen
Dec 30, 2024 · via TMDB
## Not about the guy This movie isn't about the main character, William 'D-Fens' Foster. He does some crazy things and I guess that what some people remember, but if you really watch the movie you see that it puts society's erosion of the U.S. "normal guy" on display. People who "do everything right": get a degree, marry, make babies, work for a corporation. They feel disillusioned, cheated out of the promise of the American dream. Class divides, racism, toxic masculinity, coroporate greed, urban decay, breakdown of interpersonal connections and flat, sloppy hamburgers that look nothing like the picture on the menu. They are all present in Joel Schumacher's chronicle of the late 80's and early 90's. Even the inaction of police under the strain of declining budgets. His ex-wife that dodged a bullet by getting out before D-Fens got violent, is almost ridiculed for being oversensitve, instead of rewarded for her insight and protective instincts. There are so many things we can see through D-Fens' interactions, but also his wife and the excellent portrail of Prendergast by Robert Duval. In essence, Falling Down is less about D-Fens as an individual and more about the society that shaped him and countless others like him, not coming to terms with the weight of systemic failures. It’s a film that leaves viewers with questions rather than answers. Even decades later people will recognise themselves in the characters, the neighbourhoods and the way they navigate life in the shadow of the American dream.
Rob
Aug 10, 2015 · via TMDB
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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Michael Douglas
D-Fens
Robert Duvall
Prendergast
Barbara Hershey
Beth
Rachel Ticotin
Sandra
Tuesday Weld
Mrs. Prendergast
Frederic Forrest
Surplus Store Owner
Lois Smith
D-Fens' Mother
Joey Singer
Adele (Beth's Child)
Ebbe Roe Smith
Guy on Freeway
Michael Paul Chan
Mr. Lee
Raymond J. Barry
Captain Yardley
D.W. Moffett
Detective Lydecker
Steve Park
Detective Brian
Kimberly Scott
Detective Jones
James Keane
Detective Keene
Macon McCalman
Detective Graham
Richard Montoya
Detective Sanchez
Bruce Beatty
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Agustin Rodriguez
Gang Member One
Pat Romano
Gang Member Three
Julian Scott Urena
Gang Member Four
Karina Arroyave
Angie
Benjamin Mouton
Uniformed Officer at Beth's
Dean Hallo
Uniformed Officer's Partner
James Morrison
Construction Sign Man by Bus Stop
John Fleck
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Brent Hinkley
Rick (Whammyburger)
Dedee Pfeiffer
Sheila (Whammyburger)
Carole Androsky
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Margaret Medina
Lita the Waitress
Vondie Curtis-Hall
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Russell Curry
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John Fink
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Jack Kehoe
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Jack Betts
Frank (Golfer)
Al Mancini
Jim (Golfer)
John Diehl
Dad (Back Yard Party)
Amy Morton
Mom (Back Yard Party)
Susie Singer Carter
Suzie the Stripper
Wayne Duvall
Paramedic
Jeffrey Byron
CHP Officer (uncredited)
Doshia Darmane
Whammy Burger Customer (uncredited)
Tobias Jelinek
Whammy Burger Customer (uncredited)
Andrzej Bartkowiak
Director of Photography
Marlene Stewart
Costume Design
Michael Runyard
Stunt Coordinator
Armando Guerrero
Stunts
Danny Epper
Stunts
Gary Combs
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Gary McLarty
Stunts
Gilbert Rosales
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Gregory J. Barnett
Stunts
Henry Kingi
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Jeff Imada
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Joey Box
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John C. Meier
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Manny Perry
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Michael Runyard
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Norman Howell
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Richie Gaona
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Ronnie Rondell Jr.
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Steve Boyum
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Steve M. Davison
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Thomas Rosales Jr.
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Joel Schumacher
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Paul Hirsch
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Ebbe Roe Smith
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Marion Dougherty
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Ronna Kress
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Arnon Milchan
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Arnold Kopelson
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Alicia Stevenson
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John Roesch
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James Newton Howard
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Malcolm McNab
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Tom Boyd
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James Newton Howard
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James Newton Howard
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Charles L. Campbell
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Ebbe Roe Smith
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