Falling Down
1993 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
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.
Direction Joel Schumacher
Cast Michael Douglas · Robert Duvall · Barbara Hershey · Rachel Ticotin · Lois Smith · Tuesday Weld · Frederic Forrest · Kimberly Scott · Michael Paul Chan · D.W. Moffett · Dedee Pfeiffer · James Keane · Amy Morton · John Diehl · Jack Kehoe · Abbey Barthel · Karina Arroyave
Soundtrack James Newton Howard
Screenplay Ebbe Roe Smith
Cinematography Andrzej Bartkowiak
Original title Falling Down
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