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Falling Down is a 1993 American action drama film directed by Joel Schumacher, written by Ebbe Roe Smith, and starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall. Set in Los Angeles, the film tells the story of William Foster, a disgruntled, unemployed defense worker who abandons his car in the middle of a traffic jam and goes on a violent rampage trying to reach his family for his daughter's birthday. Martin Prendergast, a…
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Some films fade into irrelevance, relics of their era. Others, strangely enough, seem to ripen with time. Their commentary, once sharp, only gets sharper. Today I thought I’d look at a few that I think have aged incredibly well: movies that may be even *more* relevant now than when they first came out. ![][divider] Falling Down (1993) Michael Douglas plays William Foster, an unemployed defense worker who one day sim…More
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Anyone can have a bad day when everything seems to go wrong and is feeding pent up frustrations. Yet, not anyone can react to such situations with rage and even fewer people can go over the line in such extreme and irrational way as main character of *Falling Down*, 1993 action drama known as the best and the most controversial film in the career of Joel Schumacher. The plot is set in Los Angeles and begins when Wil…More
Source Source I remember many years ago, being a child I could see this film, of course it was not suitable for my age, but I as a child only understood the pure action of the whole film, but then many years later, when I was an adult, I saw this film again, and now I understood many of the circumstances and the plot that arises within this film, which was released in 1993, being shot during the year 1992, in a hist…More
Falling Down is a film that I love, despite feeling like I morally shouldn't. It's a guilty pleasure to say I enjoy a film in which a man who has lost it all is slowly consumed by his madness, then wreaks havoc upon those who briefly act as an inconvenience in his day. William Foster (Michael Douglas) is a now unemployed and recently divorced middle-aged man; it's his daughters birthday and he hopes to attend her pa…More