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Falling Down (1993)

R (US) | USA | English | 113 min

Directed by: Joel Schumacher

7.5

William Foster faces difficult days between unemployment and his divorce, but on his daughter's birthday his car gets stranded on the Los Angeles freeway and foreshadows his rage. As he makes his way through the urban landscape, he has violent encounters with various strangers. A Joel Schumacher film that navigates the boundaries between a social drama and a psychological thriller, entertaining, yet no less disturbing. A story to delve into the social climate of an era: don't miss it.

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Awards

Palme d'Or 1993

Palme d'Or

Nominated

Cast & Crew

Joel Schumacher

Director

Michael Douglas

D-Fens

Robert Duvall

Prendergast

Barbara Hershey

Beth

Rachel Ticotin

Sandra

Tuesday Weld

Mrs. Prendergast

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Release Date

Romania

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1993

Canada

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1993-02-26

USA

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1993-02-26

Also Known As (A.K.A.)

Falling Down

(Original title)

Un día de furia

Argentina

Falling Down

Australia

Parent Guide

A cop punches a colleague after he insults his wife.

A man threatens to violate his restraining order when he tries to see his wife and child.

Bill punches out an angry, screaming man in his car and calmly walks away.

A man causes damage in a shop with a baseball bat.

Two gang members threaten a man with a butterfly knife which is flicked open, twirled and shown in a glamourous way complete with sound effects.

A man beats two gang members with a baseball bat.

There is a drive-by shooting in which a gang member leaning out of a car window shoots innocent by-standers and property.

A man shoots a gang member in the back of his leg, bullet impact and wound shown in closeup.

A man accidentally holds the customers and staff at a fast food restaurant hostage at gun point. He takes out a gun to threaten the manager of the shop and accidentally shoots the gun (nobody is harmed). This terrifies the other customers but he is very apologetic and is not shown as malicious at all.

At the food restaurant, a man asks a lady how she likes the food with the gun in his hand. She bends over to throw up. We don't really see anything.

Someone shoots a public telephone so no-one else can use it.

A man stabs someone in the shoulder with a butterfly knife, the man removes the knife and it has blood on the blade.

Someone blows a construction site up with a rocket launcher with the help of a child.

A man shoots a golf cart and lets an old man die of a heart attack.

Foster accidentally takes a young girl hostage at gun point. He hides near a pool belonging to a wealthy family and ushers them into a shelter, holding a young girl to comfort her. The family are notably distressed and the father offers to be taken hostage instead which greatly offends Foster, who says he wasn't trying to hurt anybody. He releases the girl who he had not noticed was afraid and is once again very apologetic.

A cop is shot in the side.

A man is shot in the chest and killed.

There are many scenes showing guns, the baseball bat and the butterfly knife along with violent scenes showing their use.

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