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1993 American action thriller film

Falling Down
A poster depicting an older man standing on a concrete platform, wearing a business outfit, holding a briefcase and a shotgun. Above, in black letters, it reads: "Michael Douglas". Below, in large white letters over a red background, it reads: "Falling Down". Beneath that, with the film credits, it reads in small white letters: "A Joel Schumacher Film". In the background are skyscrapers and a smog filled sky.

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Written by Ebbe Roe Smith
Produced by
  • Timothy Harris
  • Arnold Kopelson
  • Herschel Weingrod
Starring
  • Michael Douglas
  • Robert Duvall
  • Barbara Hershey
  • Rachel Ticotin
  • Frederic Forrest
  • Tuesday Weld
Cinematography Andrzej Bartkowiak
Edited past Paul Hirsch
Music by James Newton Howard

Production
companies
  • Le Studio Culvert+
  • Regency Enterprises
  • Alcor Films
Distributed by Warner Bros.

Release dates
  • February 26, 1993 (1993-02-26) (United States)
  • June 4, 1993 (1993-06-04) (United kingdom)

Running time

 113 minutes
Land United States
Language English
Budget $25 million[1]
Box role $96 one thousand thousand[ii]

Falling Downwards is a 1993 American action motion-picture show[3] directed by Joel Schumacher, written by Ebbe Roe Smith and released by Warner Bros. in the United States on February 26, 1993.[4] The motion picture stars Michael Douglas in the lead role of William Foster, a divorced and unemployed former defense engineer. The picture centers on Foster as he treks on pes across the city of Los Angeles, trying to achieve the firm of his estranged ex-married woman in fourth dimension for his daughter'due south birthday. Along the way, a series of encounters, both petty and provocative, causes him to react with increasing violence and brand sardonic observations on life, poverty, the economy, and commercialism. Robert Duvall co-stars as Martin Prendergast, an crumbling Los Angeles Police Department sergeant on the twenty-four hour period of his retirement, who faces his ain frustrations fifty-fifty as he tracks downward Foster.

Plot [edit]

William Foster is stuck in traffic on a hot day. Subsequently his air conditioning fails, he abandons his car and begins walking home beyond L.A., carrying his briefcase.

At a convenience store, the Korean owner refuses to give modify for a telephone call. Foster begins ranting about the high prices. The owner grabs a baseball bat and demands Foster go out. Foster takes the bat and destroys much of the merchandise before leaving. Soon thereafter, while resting on a loma, he is accosted by ii gang members, who threaten him with a knife and need his briefcase. Foster attacks them with the bat and takes their knife.

The 2 gang members, now in a car with two friends, cruise the streets and discover Foster in a telephone booth. They open up fire, striking several bystanders but not Foster. The driver loses control and crashes. Foster picks up a gun, shoots the i surviving gang member in the leg, and so leaves with their pocketbook of weapons. Foster encounters a panhandler and gives him the briefcase, which but contains his dejeuner.

At a fast-food restaurant, Foster attempts to club breakfast, only they take switched to the lunch menu. Later on an argument with the director, Foster pulls a gun and fires into the ceiling accidentally. After trying to reassure the frightened employees and customers, he orders luncheon, but is annoyed when the burger looks nothing like the 1 shown on the menu. He leaves, tries to phone call from a phone booth, so shoots the booth to pieces later beingness hassled past someone who was waiting to use the telephone. After Foster calls "domicile" once more and states his intention to attend his daughter Adele's altogether political party, his ex-married woman Beth notifies the law because she has a restraining order and fears he might become fierce.

Sergeant Prendergast, who is on his terminal day before retirement, insists on investigating the crimes. Interviews with the witnesses at each scene lead Prendergast to realize that the aforementioned person may exist responsible. Foster's "D-FENS" vanity license plate proves to be an important pb, because Prendergast remembers existence in the same traffic jam as Foster earlier that day. Prendergast and his partner, Detective Torres, visit Foster's female parent, who is surprised to learn that Foster lost his task. They realize Foster is heading toward his former family's home in Venice, California and blitz to intercept him.

Foster passes a bank where a black man is protesting subsequently being rejected for a loan application. The human being exchanges a glance with Foster and says, "Don't forget me," as he is escorted away past police. Foster stops at a military surplus store to buy shoes. The owner, a white supremacist, diverts Torres's attending when she comes in to ask questions. Subsequently Torres leaves, he offers Foster a rocket launcher, and congratulates him for shooting "a bunch of niggers" at the Whammy Burger. When Foster expresses distaste for the store owner's racism, the man pulls a gun, and attempts to plow him over to the police, but Foster stabs him with the gang member's knife, and so shoots him dead. He changes into army fatigues and boots, takes the rocket launcher, and leaves.

Foster encounters a road repair crew who are not working and accuses them of doing unnecessary repairs to justify their budget. He pulls out the rocket launcher only struggles to employ it, until a boy explains how information technology works. Foster accidentally fires the launcher, blowing up the construction site. By the time Foster reaches Beth'southward firm, she has already fled with Adele. He realizes that they may have gone to nearby Venice Pier, but Prendergast and Torres arrive earlier he can pursue them. Foster shoots Torres, injuring her, and flees with Prendergast in pursuit.

At the end of the pier, Foster confronts his ex-wife and daughter. His daughter is happy to see him, merely his ex-wife is frightened. Prendergast arrives and acknowledges Foster'south complaints about being ill-treated past social club, simply does not accept that excuses his rampage. Distracting Foster, Beth kicks the gun abroad as Prendergast draws his revolver, insisting that Foster requite himself upwardly. Foster pulls a water gun, forcing Prendergast to shoot him expressionless. Having asserted himself, Prendergast decides to agree off retirement.

Cast [edit]

  • Michael Douglas as Beak "D-Fens" Foster
  • Robert Duvall every bit Sergeant Martin Prendergast
  • Barbara Hershey every bit Beth Trevino
  • Rachel Ticotin as Detective Sandra Torres
  • Tuesday Weld every bit Amanda Prendergast
  • Frederic Forrest every bit Nick
  • Lois Smith as Foster's Mother
  • Joey Promise Singer equally Adele Foster-Trevino
  • Michael Paul Chan as Mr. Lee
  • Raymond J. Barry as Captain Neb Yardley
  • D. West. Moffett as Detective Lydecker
  • Steve Park as Detective Brian
  • James Keane as Detective Keene
  • Marlo Thomas as KTLA Reporter
  • Karina Arroyave as Angie
  • Brent Hinkley as Rick
  • Dedee Pfeiffer as Sheila Folsom
  • Vondie Curtis-Hall as "Not Economically Viable" Human
  • James Morrison as Construction Sign Human being by Charabanc Stop

Product [edit]

Development [edit]

Falling Down was being shot on locations in Lynwood, California, when the 1992 Los Angeles riots began. By April thirty, the riots were sufficiently disruptive to force filming to stop early that twenty-four hours.[five] Motion picture crews produced more footage inside of Warner Bros. Studio, in Burbank, as the riots connected. By May 4, when the coiffure intended to resume in Pasadena, initial requests to do so were denied, causing delays.[6] Filming wrapped in tardily June 1992.[vii] Production designer Barbara Ling said, "Nosotros mapped this so that you really were going across [Los Angeles] from Silverish Lake down to mid-city to Koreatown."[8]

In an interview less than a week before Falling Down 'south release, screenwriter Ebbe Roe Smith gave his estimation of what the movie was about. "To me, even though the movie deals with complicated urban issues, it really is just about one bones affair: The main character represents the old power structure of the U.Southward. that has now become primitive, and hopelessly lost. For both of them, it'south adjust-or-dice time..."[9]

Casting [edit]

Foster's signature haircut was the idea of Joel Schumacher and the movie'due south hairstylist, Lynda Gurasich. Douglas commented on how information technology helped him become into the character of a veteran of the military or defense industry, "It gave me the feeling of the tardily '50s and the early '60s, and somehow my grapheme you kinda take the feeling that he came from some other time, or he wished or he hoped for another time when things made sense." Douglas would add apropos the character, "There's a lot of people who are a paycheck away from beingness on the streets and being out of work who did everything right, they've been responsible, they tried hard, [and] they don't know what went wrong! Nosotros won the war, where'southward it all at?"[10]

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

The flick grossed $96 million against a $25 million budget. Information technology took the top spot at the United States box office in its first two weeks of release (February 26–28 and March 5–vii, 1993). Falling Down pushed the previous pinnacle flick, Groundhog Day, into the second place box-office spot for both those weeks.[eleven] It grossed $40.9 million in the United States and Canada and $55.1 million internationally.[12] [2]

Critical reception [edit]

Falling Downwards holds an approval rating of 75% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 55 reviews, with an boilerplate rating of 6.80/10. The site's consensus states: "Falling Downwards 'southward popcorn-friendly take on its complex themes proves disquieting—and ultimately plumbing equipment for a bleakly entertaining picture of one man'southward aroused break with reality."[13] Notwithstanding, the moving-picture show likewise has a weighted average score of 56 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 21 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[fourteen] [fifteen] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the motion picture an average course of "B" on an A+ to F scale. [16]

Gimmicky [edit]

Gimmicky reviews of Falling Down were generally mixed to positive.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times chosen information technology "the most interesting, all-out commercial American motion-picture show of the year to engagement, and one that will function much like a Rorschach test to expose the secrets of those who watch it."[four] Philip Thomas of Empire magazine wrote in his review of the picture, "While the morality of D-Fens's methods are questionable, there's a resonance about his reaction to everyday annoyances, and Michael Douglas' hypnotic performance makes it memorable."[17] James Berardinelli wrote: "Falling Downwardly is replete with gallows humor, almost to the signal where it could exist classified as a 'black comedy'."[18] John Truby calls the film "an anti-Odyssey story" most "the lie of the American Dream".[19] He adds, "I can't think laughing so hard in a movie."[xix] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Falling Down encourages a gloating sense that we the long-suffering victims are finally getting our splendid revenge. The ultimate hollowness of that kind of triumph reflects the shallowness of a pic all too eager to serve it up."[xx]

Roger Ebert, who gave the motion-picture show a positive review at the fourth dimension of its release, wrote:

Some will even notice it racist because the targets of the moving-picture show's hero are African American, Latino, and Korean—with a few Whites thrown in for residuum. Both of these approaches represent a facile reading of the pic, which is actually about a bang-up sadness, which turns into madness, and which can afflict anyone who is told, after many years of hard piece of work, that he is unnecessary and irrelevant... What is fascinating most the Douglas character, as written and played, is the core of sadness in his soul. Yes, by the time we meet him, he has gone over the border. But at that place is no exhilaration in his binge, no release. He seems weary and confused, and in his actions he unconsciously follows scripts that he may have learned from the movies, or on the news, where other frustrated misfits vent their rage on innocent bystanders.[21]

The Washington Post writer Hal Hinson observed:

This guy is you, the motion-picture show suggests, and if non you exactly, and so maybe the guy you're 1 or 2 bad breaks from condign. At one time or another, we've all thought these thoughts, and and then when this downtrodden, laid-off, teed-off L.A. defense worker gets out of his car on a sweltering day in the eye of rush hr and decides he's non going to take any more, it comes as no surprise", adding "as he did in Fatal Allure and Wall Street, Douglas again takes on the symbolic drape of the Zeitgeist. Only in Falling Down, he and Schumacher want to have their block and eat it too; they want him to be a hero and a villain, and information technology just won't work.[22]

Peter Travers of Rolling Rock gave the moving-picture show 4 stars out of v, writing:

There'south no denying the power of the tale or of Douglas's riveting performance—his best and riskiest since Wall Street. Douglas neither demonizes nor canonizes this flawed character. Marching across a trigger-happy urban mural toward an illusory home, this shattered Everyman is never less than real ... "I'm the bad guy?" he asks in disbelief. Douglas speaks the line with a searing poignancy that illuminates uncomfortable truths without excusing the character. Schumacher could have exploited those tabloid headlines about solid citizens going berserk. Instead, the timely, gripping Falling Downwards puts a human face on a cold statistic and then dares us to wait abroad.[23]

Mick LaSalle said of the film in the San Francisco Relate:

A few times every year, Hollywood makes a fault, violates formula, and actually makes a great pic. Falling Downwards is one of the great mistakes of 1993, a film likewise practiced and as well original to win any Oscars, but one leap to be remembered in years to come up equally a true and ironic statement about life in our time.[24]

At the time of its release, Douglas's father, actor Kirk Douglas, declared, "He played it brilliantly. I think it is his best piece of work to date."[25] He also defended the motion-picture show against critics who claimed that information technology glorifies lawbreaking: "Michael'due south character is non the 'hero' or 'newest urban icon'. He is the villain and the victim. Of course, we see many elements of our society that contributed to his madness. We even pity him. But the picture show never condones his deportment."[25]

Falling Down was released in theatres less than one year after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, during which Korean Americans and their businesses were targeted by rioters. The Korean American Coalition[26] and Korean Grocers Association[27] protested the pic for its treatment of minorities, especially the Korean grocer. Warner Bros. Korea cancelled the release of Falling Down in S Korea following boycott threats.[28] The outcry past the Grocers Association led to Michael Douglas meeting with the organization'southward members at the Warner Bros. Studio because they "were at that place and they were pissed. So we had a chat and I told them, 'Expect, I'm very sorry, but there'south a reason the screenwriter picked certain things to put in the picture.'"[29] Unemployed defense workers were also angered at their portrayal in the pic.[26]

The character of D‑FENS was featured on magazine covers, including the March 29, 1993 upshot[30] of Newsweek magazine, and reported upon equally an embodiment of the "angry white male" stereotype.[31]

Later opinions [edit]

On the 25th anniversary of the film's release, picture show critic Apr Wolfe of LA Weekly wrote that it "remains 1 of Hollywood'southward virtually overt however morally complex depictions of the modernistic white-victimization narrative, one both adored and reviled by the farthermost right". Wolfe said "Today, we might see D-Fens and the white supremacist as the infighting sides of the far correct — one couches racism in coded words similar "thug," while the other wants an outright ethnic cleanse. Ultimately, what both want is to return to their thought of a purer America, unburdened by the concerns of minorities and women". Wolfe suggested that Rupert Murdoch would "go along to bottle that fury and parcel it as patriotism" in creating Play a trick on News.[32]

In 2012, Tasha Robinson of The A.V. Club was critical of the '90s film "that most stands out for me from that era, because it'due south such a ham-handed, wrong-headed, self-congratulatory attempt to encapsulate its era'south spirit". Robinson added, "the film treats about everyone effectually him [D-FENS] equally worthless, and presents his violence as the comedic payoff, turns it into a tone-deaf, self-pitying lament about the terrible persecution facing the oppressed majority in an era of political definiteness and increasing multiculturalism." She finishes her short review with, "It's a profoundly hateful film disguised alternately (and erratically) as either tragedy or humor."[33] An earlier 2008 review on the site was positive, saying, "Heat used equally a metaphor for simmering rage is nothing new, but few films execute sweaty psychosis every bit well."[34]

Accolades [edit]

  • 1993 Cannes Film Festival, Nominated for the Palme d'Or (Joel Schumacher)[35]
  • 1994 Edgar Award, Won for Best Movement Motion-picture show Screenplay (Ebbe Roe Smith)[36]

In other media [edit]

Falling Down has been the inspiration of musical artists such as Iron Maiden, Foo Fighters, Front Line Associates, and Heart Set on Man. The Atomic number 26 Maiden vocal "Human being on the Edge" is a basic summary of Falling Downwards, offset with describing the opening traffic jam, and ending with describing the altogether present Foster buys for his daughter. The Foo Fighters' vocal "Walk" has a music video that is a recreation of scenes from Falling Down. The Forepart Line Assembly album Millennium contains several samples from diverse scenes from Falling Downwardly.[37] The Centre Attack Man song "Out For Blood" was inspired by the anger and frustration weaved through Falling Downward which weaves through the rest of their album Fake Claret.[ commendation needed ]

In the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, a grapheme resembling Foster recreates the rocket launcher scene in a cutscene, blowing up a construction site earlier walking away with a duffel purse.[38]

An episode of the animated series Duckman titled "A Room with a Bellevue" (episode six of season three), is loosely based on the plot of Falling Down. Duckman has to pick up his new accommodate from the dry cleaner to exist presentable on his children's altogether, but huge traffic and the law are going to terminate him.

Frank Grimes, a 1-off character on The Simpsons episode "Homer's Enemy", is modeled after Foster, having the aforementioned flat-peak haircut and white shirt and briefcase.[39]

The band Slipknot sampled the famous "Liberty of Voice communication" clip in ii songs - some before versions of "Gently", and "Interloper".[ commendation needed ]

In the vocal "I'm in It", Kanye W references the picture when he raps "Time to accept information technology likewise far now/Michael Douglas out the car now".[40] [ better source needed ]

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Further reading [edit]

  • Davies, Jude (2013-12-04). Falling Downwardly. Macmillan International College Didactics. ISBN9781137363084.
  • Frauley, Jon (2010). "Moral Transcendence and Symbolic Interaction in Falling Downwards". Criminology, Deviance, and the Silverish Screen: The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN9780230115361.

External links [edit]

  • Falling Downwardly at IMDb
  • Falling Down at the TCM Movie Database
  • Falling Downwardly at AllMovie
  • Falling Down at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Falling Down at Metacritic Edit this at Wikidata
  • Falling Downward Trailer

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