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Falling Down
Directed by
Joel Schumacher
1992
1h 53m
R
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An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
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Cast of Falling Down
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
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
Police Clerk
Matthew Saks
Officer at Station
Agustin Rodriguez
Gang Member One
Eddie Frias
Gang Member Two
Pat Romano
Gang Member Three
Julian Scott Urena
Gang Member Four
Karina Arroyave
Angie
Irene Olga López
Angie's Mother
Benjamin Mouton
Uniformed Officer at Beth's
Dean Hallo
Uniformed Officer's Partner
James Morrison
Construction Sign Man by Bus Stop
John Fleck
Steady Guy in Park
Brent Hinkley
Rick (Whammyburger)
Dedee Pfeiffer
Sheila (Whammyburger)
Carole Androsky
Woman Who Throws Up (Whammyburger)
Margaret Medina
Lita the Waitress
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Not Economically Viable Man
Mark Frank
Annoying Man at Phone Booth
Peter Radon
First Gay Man
Spencer Rochfort
Second Gay Man
Carole Ita White
Second Officer at Beth's
Russell Curry
Second Officer's Partner
John Fink
Guy Behind Woman Driver
Jack Kehoe
Street Worker
Valentino D. Harrison
Kid (with Missile Launcher)
Jack Betts
Frank (Golfer)
Al Mancini
Jim (Golfer)
John Diehl
Dad (Back Yard Party)
Amy Morton
Mom (Back Yard Party)
Abbey Barthel
Trina (Back Yard Party)
Susie Singer Carter
Suzie the Stripper
Wayne Duvall
Paramedic
Valisha Jean Malin
Prendergast's Daughter
Joey Singer
Adele (Beth's Child)
Falling Down Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The film ... is actually about a great sadness which turns into madness, and which can afflict anyone who is told, after many years of hard work, that he is unnecessary and irrelevant.
New York Times
Caryn James
It turns one man's slide toward madness into a wickedly mischievous, entertaining suspense thriller.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Falling Down is a brutally manipulative revenge fantasy, a piece of comic-strip demagoguery that teeters uneasily on the brink of satire.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Schumacher at first seems like an odd choice to helm this taut, over-the-edge thriller but at closer inspection, it's obvious that The Powers That Be chose him for his ability to add the necessary action-genre punch...
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
None of the characters ever rises beyond the level of his or her generic functions, and by the end the overall emptiness of the conception becomes fully apparent.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Let's face it, there is an element of truth in the character of D-FENS. But it is, finally, tabloid truth.
Variety
Variety Staff
At first comes across like a mean-spirited black comedy and then snowballs into a reasonably powerful portrait of social alienation. The tone is unremittingly dour, however.
Newsweek
David Ansen
A real artist could make something incisive or darkly hilarious out of this moral tightrope act. Schumacher, veering recklessly between social satire, kick-ass fantasy and damsel-in-distress melodrama, plays the game for opportunistic cheap thrills.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Douglas's intentionally robotic -- and intense -- performance holds its own. He's scary, normal and funny all at once...
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
Unfortunately, it continues on through an uninspired series of cartoonishly brutal social insults, each one growing more lethal than the next, thereby justifying an increasingly lethal response.
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
The character of William Foster (simply called D-Fens in the closing credits) represents an element of our collective id.
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
Atrociously written by actor Ebbe Roe Smith and atrociously directed (it goes without saying) by Joel Schumacher...
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
A heavy-handed potboiler, but as it raises the temperature, it does give cause to consider the line--so easily crossed--between social function and disasterous personal undoing. [Blu-ray]
Common Sense Media
Barbara Shulgasser
Disturbing '90s crime thriller has violence and language.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
It's a somewhat high-concept premise that's employed to consistently engrossing effect by filmmaker Schumacher...
TheIndependentCritic.com
Richard Propes
Falling Down," a stellar film, is Joel Schumacher's miracle.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A brilliant drama with black-comic undertones. The film is directed by Joel Schumacher and stars Michael Douglas, in what may be the best performance of his career,
Cambridge Day
Tom Meek
This is probably Schumacher's most accomplished work besides Tigerland and, interestingly, shot in L.A. around the time of the riots.
TV Guide
These adventures would be offensive if you could take them seriously, so it's probably good that you can't.
Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
...holds up pretty well today, even if its tone meanders all over the place.
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