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Falling Down Details

1992 Certificate 18
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A laid-off defence 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 .. Read more

Starring Michael Douglas, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin, Frederic Forrest
Director Joel Schumacher
Genres Drama, Thriller

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Falling Down

A laid-off defence 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.

Starring Michael Douglas, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin, Frederic Forrest, Robert Duvall, Tuesday Weld, Dedee Pfeiffer
Director Joel Schumacher
Studio WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 48 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 52 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Drama, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Dubbed French, Italian
Hearing-impaired English, Italian
Subtitles DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
Released Production year: 1992

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DVD: 03 Apr 2000
Blu-ray: 01 Jun 2009
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    • 2 stars out of 4  

      A fascinating movie on urban life, with a protagonist who is both hero and villain. It can be seen as a vigilante film, an attempt to claim a position for White Anglo-Saxon Protestants as among the victims of modern society, or a satire on over-reaction t

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    • Rated - 5.0 stars  

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      Falling Down

      This movie is a piece of art, beautifully play by Mickael Douglas, I must say I love falling down....

      It shows what happens to a man in a modern ... read more »

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    • Rated - 2.5 stars  

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      Very weird

      This film was really weird and I am still not sure what to think of it. Micheal Douglas is a great actor as always and what happens to him in the film is ... read more »

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    • Rated - 4.5 stars  

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      falling down

      brilliant film.....a film we can all relate to, micheal douglas is fantastic as the guy thats had enuf.....its funny when it shouldnt be and very dark too, edge... read more »

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    Michael Douglas just turned 66. He was born in 1944, two years before his father made his first film, five years before Kirk became a bone fide movie star, six before his parents divorced and 14 before Spartacus. Imagine watching your dad’s crucifixion at the end of that movie, and tasting the solidarity of his fellow martyrs: “I’m Spartacus!” A better ending than Christ endured, renounced by his disciples. Could the roots of Michael’s on-screen masochism lie in... Read more

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    • Falling Down - Blu-ray
      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 ...

    • Falling Down
      A laid-off defence 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 ...