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Falling Down (1993)

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Reviews Counted:34

Fresh:27

Rotten:7

Average Rating:6.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: 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,... 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. [More]

Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin

Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin, Frederic Forrest, Tuesday Weld, DeDee Pfeiffer, Raymond J. Barry

Director: Joel Schumacher

Director: Joel Schumacher

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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]

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Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

...holds up pretty well today, even if its tone meanders all over the place.

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John J. Puccio
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03/31/08
David Ansen
David Ansen
Newsweek

Maybe Michael Douglas' best work, he as the depressed man driven to madness.

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02/24/08
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
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Joel Schumacher's best film.

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02/12/08
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

A crude, cathartic rant that both condemns and exploits modern paranoia.

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02/03/08
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Dealing with urban paranoia from a White POV is a good, timely idea, but film can't decide whether Michael Douglas is an ordinary or psychopathic man and whether we should feel sympathy or pity for the "victimization" of this yuppie.

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06/25/06
Emanuel Levy
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Lori Hoffman
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Atlantic City Weekly

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10/31/05
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

Douglas' tortured misfit is a chore to watch.

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10/21/05
John Wirt
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

A powerful, gripping, darkly humorous film with a dynamite lead performance by Michael Douglas. One of 1993's ten-best films.

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10/09/05
Chuck O'Leary
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07/17/05
Jules Brenner
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04/28/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Douglas as you've never seen him before

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03/11/05
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

It's half a really good movie, and half a mediocre one with a good actor.

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07/27/04
Luke Y. Thompson
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New Times

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