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'{{Short description|1993 American thriller film by Joel Schumacher}} {{About|the film}} {{Infobox film | name = Falling Down | image = Falling Down (1993 film) poster.jpg | alt = 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. | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = [[Joel Schumacher]] | producer = {{ubl|[[Timothy Harris (writer)|Timothy Harris]]|[[Arnold Kopelson]]|[[Herschel Weingrod]]}} | writer = [[Ebbe Roe Smith]] | starring = {{Plainlist| * [[Michael Douglas]] * [[Robert Duvall]] * [[Barbara Hershey]] * [[Rachel Ticotin]] * [[Frederic Forrest]] * [[Tuesday Weld]]}} | music = [[James Newton Howard]] | cinematography = [[Andrzej Bartkowiak]] | editing = [[Paul Hirsch (film editor)|Paul Hirsch]] | studio = {{ubl||[[StudioCanal|Le Studio Canal+]]|[[Regency Enterprises]]|Alcor Films}} | distributor = [[Warner Bros. Pictures]] | released = February 26, 1993 (United States)<br/>May 27, 1993 (Australia) | runtime = 112 minutes | country = {{ubl|[[United States]]}} | language = English | budget = $25 million | gross = $40.9 million<ref name="mojo">{{cite web|url=http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fallingdown.htm |title=Falling Down (1993) |website=Box Office Mojo |date=May 25, 1993 |accessdate=June 15, 2012}}</ref> }} '''''Falling Down''''' is a 1993 [[crime film|crime]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Joel Schumacher]] and written by [[Ebbe Roe Smith]].<ref name=NYT/> The film stars [[Michael Douglas]] in the lead role of William Foster, a divorced and unemployed former [[defense industry|defense]] engineer. The film centers on Foster as he treks on foot across the city of [[Los Angeles]], trying to reach the house of his estranged ex-wife in time for his daughter's birthday. Along the way, a series of encounters, both trivial and provocative, causes him to react with increasing violence and make sardonic observations on life, poverty, the economy, and commercialism. [[Robert Duvall]] co-stars as Martin Prendergast, an aging [[Los Angeles Police Department]] sergeant on the day of his retirement, who faces his own frustrations - even as he tracks down Foster. ==Plot== William Foster is recently divorced, his ex-wife Beth has a [[restraining order]] against him, and he was recently laid off from his job. After the air conditioning fails in his car, he abandons it in a [[traffic jam]] and begins walking. At a convenience store, the Korean owner refuses to give change for a telephone call and Foster complains about the high prices. During the argument, the owner picks up a baseball bat, which Foster wrestles from him and uses to destroy merchandise. He then pays for a soda and leaves. Shortly thereafter, he is approached by two gang members, who taunt and harass him and demand his briefcase. One gangster pulls a knife and Foster fights them off with the baseball bat. Foster picks up the dropped knife. Meanwhile, Sergeant Martin Prendergast is on his last day of work before retirement. He takes a report from the Korean store owner, who describes the melee with Foster. Foster calls Beth from a [[phone booth]]. Despite her restraining order, he insists he will come home for his daughter, Adele's, birthday. The gang members, now in a car with reinforcements, find Foster. They attempt a [[drive by shooting]] with [[machine pistol]]s but miss him and hit several bystanders instead, before crashing the car. Foster approaches, shoots a trapped gangster in the leg and takes a duffel bag full of their weapons. In the meantime, Beth calls the police, but the officers don't believe that Foster is dangerous. suck my fucking asshole , one of whom pesters him for handouts before complaining that Foster has two bags while he has none. Foster relents and gives his briefcase to the beggar; the briefcase turns out to be empty except for Foster's lunch. The angry beggar rages while Foster walks away with his bag of guns. Angela, the girlfriend of one of the gangsters, is interrogated by police as she witnessed the drive-by shooting. She describes Foster and Prendergast connects the convenience store incident and the drive-by-shooting event. At a fast food restaurant Foster attempts to order breakfast, but they have switched to the lunch menu. After an argument with the manager, Foster pulls a machine pistol and accidentally fires into the ceiling. After trying to reassure the frightened employees and customers he will not hurt anyone, he relents and orders lunch instead, but complains when the unappetizing burger looks nothing like the one shown on the menu. He leaves, tries to call Beth from a phone booth, then shoots the booth to pieces after being insulted by an impatient man who was waiting to make a call. Prendergast and his partner, Torres, begin investigating and find the traffic jam, where Foster has left his car. Prendergast sees Foster's license plate "D-FENS". Foster passes a bank where an [[African American]] man is publicly protesting his rejected loan application, announcing the bank's claim that he's "not economically viable". As the protester is taken away by police, he exchanges a glance with Foster and says "Don't forget me" to which Foster nods in agreement. Foster then stops at a military surplus store. The owner, a [[White supremacy|white supremacist]], insults two homosexual customers and, when Torres arrives and asks about Foster, denies having seen him while Foster hides in a changing room. After she leaves he congratulates Foster for the fast food incident, believing the employees were all black, and offers Foster a [[M72 LAW|rocket launcher]]. When Foster expresses distaste for the store owner's bigotry, the store owner pulls a gun and attempts to turn him over to the police, but Foster stabs him with the gang member's knife and shoots him dead. He changes into army fatigues and boots, and leaves with the rocket launcher and his bag of guns. He calls Beth again and tells her that he is "coming home". Alarmed by his rambling speech and menacing manner, Beth again calls the police, who arrive and stay briefly. Foster encounters a road-repair crew and accuses them of doing unnecessary construction work to justify their budget. He pulls out the rocket launcher, but struggles to use it. A young boy who thinks a movie is being filmed describes how to operate the launcher. While they talk, Foster accidentally fires the launcher, blowing up the construction site. Later, Foster walks across the property of a private country club. A golfer shouts at Foster about trespassing and hits a golf ball at him, which barely misses. Foster is furious and pulls a shotgun; he complains about their selfishness and sense of entitlement. He shoots a golf cart and the golfer has a heart attack. Further into the property, he reaches an extravagant house, where an employee of the owner is barbecuing with his family. Foster complains about how he cut his hand on barbed wire trying to pass through the golf course. He initially takes the family hostage, but then lets them go. Foster again calls Beth and tells her that he is close. She flees with Adele. Shortly after Foster reaches the empty house, Prendergast and Torres arrive. Foster shoots and wounds Torres and rushes out to Venice Pier, with Prendergast chasing him. At the end of the pier, Foster finds Beth and Adele. Adele is happy to see him and Foster places his gun on the boardwalk and hugs her, despite Beth's fear. Prendergast arrives and intervenes. Beth kicks the gun away from the distracted Foster as Prendergast draws his revolver. He sympathizes with Foster's complaints about being ill-treated by society, but does not accept them as an excuse for his rampage and demands Foster surrender. Dispirited by the realization he is "the bad guy" of this story, Foster tells Prendergast he has a concealed handgun. He reaches and [[Suicide by cop|tricks Prendergast into shooting him]]: the gun was only a water pistol. Foster dies and falls off the pier into the water. After conversing with Beth and Adele, Prendergast decides to hold off retirement. ==Cast== {{Cast listing| * [[Michael Douglas]] as William "D-Fens" Foster * [[Robert Duvall]] as Sgt. Martin Prendergast * [[Barbara Hershey]] as Beth Trevino * [[Rachel Ticotin]] as Det. Sandra Torres * [[Tuesday Weld]] as Amanda Prendergast * [[Frederic Forrest]] as Nick * [[Lois Smith]] as Foster's mother * Joey Hope Singer as Adele Foster-Trevino * [[Michael Paul Chan]] as Mr. Lee * [[Raymond J. Barry]] as Capt. William Yardley * [[D. W. Moffett]] as Det. Lydecker * [[Steve Park (comedian)|Steve Park]] as Detective Brian * [[Karina Arroyave]] as Angie * [[Brent Hinkley]] as Rick * [[Dedee Pfeiffer]] as Sheila Folsom * [[Vondie Curtis-Hall]] as "Not Economically Viable" Man }} ==Production== ===Development=== ''Falling Down'' was being shot on locations in [[Lynwood, California]] when the [[1992 Los Angeles riots]] began. By April 30, the riots were sufficiently disruptive to force filming to stop early that day.<ref name="southern">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/82242600|title=3 May 1992|page= Page 11 |work= Southern Illinoisan |access-date=October 11, 2016}}</ref> Film crews produced more footage inside of Warner Bros. Studio, in [[Burbank, CA|Burbank]], as the riots continued. By May 4, when the crew intended to resume in [[Pasadena, CA|Pasadena]], initial requests to do so were denied, causing delays.<ref name="LAT">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/177286935|title=Hollywood Film Crews Encounter Riot Delays|last=|first=|date=1992-05-05|work=|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=2016-10-11|via=}}</ref> Filming wrapped in late June 1992.<ref name="Detroit">{{Cite news|title=Surprise|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/99879835|date=23 Jun 1992|page= 25 |work= Detroit Free Press |access-date=2016-10-12}}</ref> Production designer Barbara Ling said, "We mapped this so that you really were going across [Los Angeles] from Silver Lake down to mid-city to Koreatown."<ref name="lataco">{{Cite news|url=http://www.lataco.com/setting-path-across-l-unhinged-antihero-falling/|title=Setting a Path Across L.A. With the Unhinged Antihero of 'Falling Down' |date=February 25, 2018|work=L.A. TACO|access-date=2018-03-05|language=en-US}}</ref> In an interview less than a week before ''Falling Down''{{'}}s release, screenwriter Ebbe Roe Smith gave his interpretation of what the movie was about. "To me, even though the movie deals with complicated urban issues, it really is just about one basic thing: The main character represents the old power structure of the U.S. that has now become archaic, and hopelessly lost. And that way, I guess you could say D-FENS is like Los Angeles. For both of them, it's adjust-or-die time ..."<ref name="LAT2">{{Cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1993-02-21/entertainment/ca-942_1_los-angeles|title=MOVIES : 'Falling Down' Writer Has Seen the Future: It's L.A. |last=Murphy|first=Ryan|date=February 21, 1993|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|access-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref> ===Casting=== Foster's signature haircut was the idea of [[Joel Schumacher]] and the movie's hairstylist Lynda Gurasich. Douglas commented on how it helped him get into the character of a veteran of the military or defense industry, "It gave me the feeling of the late 50s and the early 60s, and somehow my character you kinda have the feeling that he came from another time, or he wished or he hoped for another time when things made sense." Douglas would add concerning the character, "There's a lot of people who are a paycheck away from being 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! We won the [[Cold War|war]], where's it all at?"<ref name="Tibbits">{{cite AV media|url=https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/7093|last=Tibbits|first=John C.|title=Falling Down: Conversations About the Film|language=English|orig-year=First published 1993|publisher=[[University of Kansas]]}}</ref> ==Reception== ===Box office=== The film grossed $40.9 million against a $25 million budget. It took the top spot in United States domestic box office totals in its first two weeks of release (February 26–28 and March 5–7, 1993). ''Falling Down'' pushed the previous top movie, ''[[Groundhog Day (film)|Groundhog Day]]'', into the second place box-office spot for both those weeks.<ref name="mojo2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=groundhogday.htm|title=Groundhog Day (1993)—Weekend Box Office Results |publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2016-10-06}}</ref> ===Critical reception=== ==== Contemporary ==== Contemporary reviews for the film were generally positive. ''Falling Down'' holds a 74% "Certified Fresh" rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on fifty-three reviews, with the site's consensus stating; "Falling Down's popcorn-friendly take on its complex themes proves disquieting -- and ultimately fitting for a bleakly entertaining picture of one man's angry break with reality."<ref name ="RT">[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/falling_down/ Rotten Tomatoes – Falling Down]</ref> and a score of 56 out of 100 ("mixed or average reviews") on [[Metacritic]].<ref name="meta">[http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/fallingdown Metacritic – Falling Down]</ref> [[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called it "the most interesting, all-out commercial American film of the year to date, and one that will function much like a [[Rorschach test]] to expose the secrets of those who watch it."<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Falling Down (1993) Review/Film; Urban Horrors, All Too Familiar|author=Canby, Vincent|authorlink=Vincent Canby|date=February 26, 1993|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F0CE0DC113FF935A15751C0A965958260}}</ref> Philip Thomas of ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine wrote in his review of the film, "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."<ref name="empire">[http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=16988 Empire Online – Falling Down Review]</ref> [[James Berardinelli]] wrote: "''Falling Down'' is replete with [[gallows humor]], almost to the point where it could be classified as a '[[black comedy]]'."<ref name="reel">{{cite web|url=http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/f/falling_down.html |title=Reelviews Movie Reviews |publisher=Reelviews.net |date=1993-02-26 |accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> [[John Truby]] calls the film "an anti-[[Odyssey]] story" about "the lie of the [[American dream]]".<ref name=truby>{{cite web|work=Truby.com|title=Falling Down|url=http://truby.com/falling-down-1993/}}</ref> He adds "I can't remember laughing so hard in a movie."<ref name=truby/> [[Roger Ebert]], who gave the film a positive review at the time of its release, wrote: <blockquote>Some will even find it racist because the targets of the film's hero are African-American, Latino and Korean—with a few whites thrown in for balance. Both of these approaches represent a facile reading of the film, which is actually about a great sadness which turns into madness, and which can afflict anyone who is told, after many years of hard work, that he is unnecessary and irrelevant... What is fascinating about 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 edge. But there is no exhilaration in his rampage, 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.<ref name="Ebert">{{cite web | last=Ebert | first=Roger | title=Falling Down | url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19930226/REVIEWS/302260301/1023 | work=RogerEbert.com | publisher=Ebert Digital LLC | date=February 26, 1993 | accessdate=July 4, 2018}}</ref></blockquote> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' writer [[Hal Hinson]] observed: <blockquote>This guy is you, the movie suggests, and if not you exactly, then maybe the guy you're one or two bad breaks from becoming. At one time or another, we've all thought these thoughts, and so when this downtrodden, laid-off, teed-off L.A. defense worker gets out of his car on a sweltering day in the middle of rush hour and decides he's not going to take any more, it comes as no surprise", adding "as he did in ''[[Fatal Attraction]]'' and ''[[Wall Street (1987 film)|Wall Street]]'', Douglas again takes on the symbolic mantle of the [[Zeitgeist]]. But in ''Falling Down'', he and Schumacher want to have their cake and eat it too; they want him to be a hero and a villain, and it just won't work.<ref name="post">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/fallingdownrhinson_a0a7f7.htm|title=Falling Down|last=Hinson|first=Hal|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 26, 1993|accessdate=2014-04-23}}</ref></blockquote> [[Peter Travers]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' gave the film four stars out of five, writing: <blockquote>There's 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 violent urban landscape 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 Down'' puts a human face on a cold statistic and then dares us to look away.<ref name="RS">{{cite magazine|url=http://rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/falling-down-19930226|title=Falling Down|last=Travers|first=Peter|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=February 26, 1993|access-date=2014-04-23|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.is/20140423000934/http://m.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/falling-down-19930226|archive-date=April 23, 2014}}</ref></blockquote> 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."<ref name="McCook">{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ddwgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=H2sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4190%2C2142647 | title=Kirk Douglas Defends Son |date=March 23, 1993 | publisher=[[McCook Daily Gazette]] | accessdate=2012-06-28}}</ref> He also defended the film against critics who claimed that it glorifies lawbreaking: "Michael's character is not 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 movie never condones his actions."<ref name="McCook" /> Contextually, ''Falling Down'' was released in theatres less than one year after the [[1992 Los Angeles riots]]. In them, the targeting of Korean-Americans and their businesses by rioters was a point of fact. The Korean American Coalition<ref name="ew">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,305859,00.html|title='Down' Beat—Up in arms over ''Falling Down''—Laid-off workers are offended by the Michael Douglas film|last=Appelo|first=Tim|date=March 12, 1993|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|accessdate=2012-03-17}}</ref> and Korean Grocers Association<ref name="TENN">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/113107389|title="Falling Down" Under Fire|date=1993-03-03|newspaper=The Tennessean|access-date=2016-10-06}}</ref> protested the film for its treatment of minorities, especially the [[Korean people|Korean]] grocer. Warner Brothers Korea canceled the release of ''Falling Down'' in [[South Korea]] following boycott threats.<ref name="RMN">"'Falling Down' won't play Korea." ''[[Rocky Mountain News]]'', March 10, 1994.</ref> The outcry by the Grocers Association in particular was sufficient to see Michael Douglas meet with members at Warner Brothers Studio because they "were there and they were pissed. So we had a conversation and I told them, 'Look, I'm very sorry, but there's a reason the screenwriter picked certain things to put in the film.'"<ref name="EW2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/15/life-film-michael-douglas-8-his-greatest-roles|title=Michael Douglas on 8 of his greatest roles, from Gordon Gekko to Liberace|access-date=2016-10-06}}</ref> Unemployed defense workers were also angered at their portrayal in the film.<ref name="ew" /> The character of D‑FENS was featured on magazine covers, including the March 29, 1993 issue<ref name="newsweek">{{Cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/white-male-paranoia-191128|title=White Male Paranoia|date=1993-03-28|work=Newsweek|access-date=2017-04-12|language=en}}</ref> of ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine, and reported upon as an embodiment of the "[[angry white male]]" stereotype.<ref name="Gutiérrez">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Zc0e8caLkEC|pages=61–65|title=Critical race narratives|author=Carl Scott Gutiérrez-Jones|publisher=NYU Press |year=2001|isbn=978-0-8147-3145-1}}</ref> ==== Later opinions ==== 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's such a ham-handed, wrong-headed, self-congratulatory attempt to encapsulate its era's spirit". Robinson added "the film treats virtually everyone around him [D-FENS] as 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 correctness and increasing multiculturalism." She finishes her short review with, "It's a profoundly hateful film disguised alternately (and erratically) as either tragedy or humor."<ref name="AVC">{{Cite news|url=http://www.avclub.com/article/our-most-hated-movies-of-the-90s-86560|title=Our most-hated movies of the '90s|last=Staff|first=A.V. Club|work=Film|date=2012-10-12|access-date=2018-05-30|language=en-US}}</ref> An earlier 2008 review on the site was positive, saying, "Heat used as a metaphor for simmering rage is nothing new, but few films execute sweaty psychosis as well."<ref name="AV2">{{Cite news|url=https://film.avclub.com/its-not-the-heat-its-the-intensity-13-memorable-films-1798214436|title=It's not the heat, it's the intensity: 13 memorable films set during heat waves|last=Staff|work=Film|access-date=2018-05-30|language=en-US}}</ref> On the 25th anniversary of the film's release, film critic April Wolfe of ''LA Weekly'' wrote that it "remains one of Hollywood's most overt yet morally complex depictions of the modern white-victimization narrative, one both adored and reviled by the extreme right". Wolfe said "Today, we might see D-Fens and the white supremacist as the infighting sides of the far right — one couches racism in coded words like "thug," while the other wants an outright ethnic cleanse. Ultimately, what both want is to return to their idea of a purer America, unburdened by the concerns of minorities and women". Wolfe suggested that [[Rupert Murdoch]] would "go on to bottle that fury and package it as patriotism" in creating [[Fox News]].<ref name="LAW">{{Cite news|url=http://www.laweekly.com/film/falling-down-25th-anniversary-michael-douglas-was-the-villain-8164453|title=Hey, White People: Michael Douglas Is the Villain, Not the Victim, in Falling Down|last=Wolfe|first=April|date=2017-04-26|work=L.A. Weekly|access-date=2017-06-15}}</ref> ===Accolades=== * [[1993 Cannes Film Festival]], Nominated for the [[Palme d'Or]] (Joel Schumacher)<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2580/year/1993.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Falling Down |access-date=2009-08-18 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003192702/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2580/year/1993.html |archive-date=2009-10-03 |df= }}</ref> * 1994 [[Edgar Award]], Won for Best Motion Picture Screenplay (Ebbe Roe Smith)<ref name="edgars">{{Cite web|url=http://theedgars.com/awards/category-list-best-motion-picture/|title=Category List – Best Motion Picture| publisher=[[Edgar Award|The Edgars]] |language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-02}}</ref> === In other media === ''Falling Down'' has been the inspiration of musical artists such as [[Iron Maiden]], [[Foo Fighters]] and [[Front Line Assembly]]. The Iron Maiden song "[[Man on the Edge]]" is a basic summary of ''Falling Down'', beginning with describing the opening traffic jam, and ending with describing the birthday present D-Fens buys for his daughter. The Foo Fighters' song "[[Walk (Foo Fighters song)|Walk]]" has a music video that is a recreation of scenes from ''Falling Down''. The Front Line Assembly album [[Millennium_(Front_Line_Assembly_album) | Millennium]] contains several samples from various scenes from ''Falling Down''. In the video game ''[[Tony Hawk's American Wasteland]]'', a character resembling D-Fens recreates the rocket launcher scene in a [[cutscene]], blowing up a construction site before walking away with a duffel bag. == References == {{Reflist}} == Further reading == * {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HUwdBQAAQBAJ|title=Falling Down|last=Davies|first=Jude|date=2013-12-04|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=9781137363084|language=en}} * {{cite book|author=Frauley, Jon|date= 2010|chapter=Moral Transcendence and Symbolic Interaction in ''Falling Down''|title= Criminology, Deviance, and the Silver Screen: The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination|location= New York|publisher= Palgrave Macmillan|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IW3HAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99}} ==External links== {{Wikiquote}} * {{IMDb title|0106856}} * {{tcmdb title|18370}} * {{Allmovie title|16651}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|falling_down}} * {{metacritic film|falling-down|Falling Down}} * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD5ofrSNDFA ''Falling Down'' Trailer] {{Joel Schumacher}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:1993 films]] [[Category:1990s crime drama films]] [[Category:1990s thriller films]] [[Category:1990s crime thriller films]] [[Category:1990s thriller drama films]] [[Category:American crime drama films]] [[Category:American crime thriller films]] [[Category:American thriller drama films]] [[Category:British crime drama films]] [[Category:British crime thriller films]] [[Category:British thriller drama films]] [[Category:French crime drama films]] [[Category:French crime thriller films]] [[Category:Edgar Award-winning works]] [[Category:English-language films]] [[Category:Films about dysfunctional families]] [[Category:Films directed by Joel Schumacher]] [[Category:Films set in Los Angeles]] [[Category:Films shot in Los Angeles]] [[Category:Regency Enterprises films]] [[Category:StudioCanal films]] [[Category:Warner Bros. films]] [[Category:American vigilante films]] [[Category:Films scored by James Newton Howard]]'