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01/01/00
Falling Down (1993)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:27
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.8/10
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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01/01/00
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01/09/02
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01/26/06
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04/17/01
Douglas' portrayal of a man heading for the abyss is utterly convincing.
04/02/01
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10/18/02
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03/26/09
Top CriticIt's hard not to root for this embodiment of white man's angst ... the ending seems stilted, as if to say "we must openly condemn him while we secretly admire him."
03/19/03
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05/20/03
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12/30/03
A powerful, gripping, darkly humorous film with a dynamite lead performance by Michael Douglas. One of 1993's ten-best films.
10/09/05
Joel Schumacher's best film.
02/12/08
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03/19/04
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03/31/08
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01/01/00
Top CriticDealing 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
Schumacher's hostile study of urban angst and the breakdown of a fragile crewcut crusader (Douglas) is downright suspenseful if not wryly witty in its caustic conception
05/23/03
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