Taglines: The adventures of an ordinary man at war with the everyday world.
Falling Down movie storyline. On the day of his daughter’s (Joey Hope Singer) birthday, William “D-Fens” Foster (Michael Douglas) is trying to get to his estranged ex-wife’s (Barbara Hershey) house to see his daughter. He has a breakdown and leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. Along the way he stops at a convenience store and tries to get some change for a phone call but the owner, Mister Lee (Michael Paul Chan), does not give him change.
This destabilizes William who then breaks apart the shop with a baseball bat and goes to an isolated place to drink a coke. Two gangsters (Agustin Rodriguez & Eddie Frias) threaten him and he reacts by hitting them with the bat. D-FENS continues walking and stops at a phone booth. The gangsters hunt him down with their gang and shoot at him but crash their car. William goes nuts and takes their gym bag with weapons proceeding in his journey of rage against injustice.
Falling Down is a 1993 thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Ebbe Roe Smith. The film stars Michael Douglas in the lead role of William Foster, a divorced and unemployed former 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 party.
Along the way, a series of encounters, both trivial and provocative, cause 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 LAPD Sergeant on the day of his retirement, who faces his own frustrations, even as he tracks down Foster.
Falling Down (1993)
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin, Frederic Forrest, Tuesday Weld, Michael Paul Chan, Joey Hope Singer, Karina Arroyave
Screenplay by: Ebbe Roe Smith
Production Design by: Barbara Ling
Cinematography by: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Film Editing by: Paul Hirsch
Costume Design by: Marlene Stewart
Set Decoration by: Cricket Rowland
Art Direction by: Larry Fulton
Music by: James Newton Howard
MPAA Rating: R for violence and strong language.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: February 26, 1993
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