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Falling Down

1993 · Movie · 107 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer75%as of 2024-10-31
  • Rotten Tomatoes average6.8/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic56/100as of 2025-10-17

What it is

Falling Down is a 1993 American action drama film directed by Joel Schumacher, written by Ebbe Roe Smith, and starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall. Set in Los Angeles, the film tells the story of William Foster, a disgruntled, unemployed defense worker who abandons his car in the middle of a traffic jam and goes on a violent rampage trying to reach his family for his daughter's birthday.

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Genres
Thriller / Drama / Crime / Action
Original language
English

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