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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06/01/09
Falling Down (1993)
80 %
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Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 28
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,... [More]
Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin
Director: Joel Schumacher
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...holds up pretty well today, even if its tone meanders all over the place.
05/24/09
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03/26/09
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03/31/08
Top CriticMaybe Michael Douglas' best work, he as the depressed man driven to madness.
02/24/08
Joel Schumacher's best film.
02/12/08
A crude, cathartic rant that both condemns and exploits modern paranoia.
02/03/08
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.
06/25/06
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05/25/06
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01/26/06
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10/31/05
Douglas' tortured misfit is a chore to watch.
10/21/05
A powerful, gripping, darkly humorous film with a dynamite lead performance by Michael Douglas. One of 1993's ten-best films.
10/09/05
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07/17/05
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07/05/05
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04/28/05
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07/08/04
One of Schumacher's lone efforts that actually has some depth
06/04/04
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