William Foster, AKA D-FENS, is an unemployed, divorced engineer in the defense industry who’s reached his boiling point. First he finds himself in gridlock, which he deals with by abandoning his car. He subsequently happens across an unhelpful convenience store clerk whose prices D-FENS ‘rolls back’, by demolishing the store with a baseball bat after overpowering the clerk. Soon he finds himself in gangland, and deals with some tough-looking gang members by attacking them and running them off. When the gang members try to retaliate, it fails when they crash their car and D-FENS takes their bag full of guns. Unfortunately for him, a retiring cop is on his trail, and soon things will come to blows as D-FENS heads towards Venice for his young daughter’s birthday party….

Falling Down (1993)
  • Rating: (65,905 votes)
  • Taglines:The adventures of an ordinary man at war with the everyday world. » A Tale Of Urban Reality »
  • Runtime:113 minutes
  • Director: Joel Schumacher
  • Countries:France, USA, UK
  • Actors:
    William 'D-Fens' Foster
    Michael Douglas
    Detective Prendergast
    Robert Duvall
    Elizabeth 'Beth' Travino
    Barbara Hershey
    Sandra
    Rachel Ticotin
    Mrs. Prendergast
    Tuesday Weld
    Nick, The Nazi Surplus Store Owner
    Frederic Forrest
    Mrs. Foster / William's Mother
    Lois Smith
    Adele Foster-Travino
    Joey Hope Singer
    Guy on Freeway
    Ebbe Roe Smith
    Mr. Lee
    Michael Paul Chan
  • Genres:Crime, Drama, Thriller
  • Producers:
    William S. Beasley
    associate producer  
    Stephen Brown
    co-producer  
    Nana Greenwald
    co-producer  
    Timothy Harris
    producer  
    Dan Kolsrud
    co-producer  
    Arnold Kopelson
    producer  
    Arnon Milchan
    executive producer  
    Ebbe Roe Smith
    associate producer  
    John J. Tomko
    associate producer  
    Herschel Weingrod
    producer  
  • Plots: William (D-FENS) just wants to get home to see his daughter on her birthday. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be going right for him. First there's the traffic jam, then the unhelpful Korean shopkeeper who "doesn't give change". D-FENS begins to crack and starts to fight back against the every day "injustices" he encounters on his journey home. The film has a story running in parallel about a desk-bound cop who is about to retire. He's retiring for his wife's sake, and obviously isn't happy about it. The cop tracks down D-FENS and in the final scene..... Written by Rob Hartill
Falling Down
  • User's comment:great film by colinwhitefan

    It's just not William Foster's (Michael Douglas) day. Laid off from his defense job, Foster gets stuck in the middle of big traffic jam. Foster on his way to attend his daughter's birthday party at the home of his ex-wife (Barbara Hershey), Foster leaves his vehicle and begins walking, running into one problem after another. He also slowly loses it, finally snapping at a fast food restaurant (a spoof of McDonald's) that refuses to serve him breakfast because he was late. Foster also known as "D-FENS" because of his custom license plate quickly becomes a source of terror to some, a hero to others. It's up to hesitant cop Prendergast (Robert Duvall), on the eve of retirement, to bring Foster down. Douglas and Duvall nail their roles within this well written movie. If you haven't seen this movie you are in store for a nice work.


  • Quotes: Bill Foster: I helped build missiles. I helped protect this country. You should be rewarded for that. But instead they give it to the plastic surgeons, you know they lied to me. Sergeant Prendergast: Is that what this is about? Is that why my chicken dinner is drying out in the oven? You're mad because they lied to you? Listen, pal, they lie to everyone. They lie to the fish. But that doesn't give you any special right to do what you did today. Bill Foster: I would've gotcha.
  • Also known as: Falling Down - Ein ganz normaler Tag (Austria), Falling Down - Ein ganz normaler Tag (Germany), Un día de furia (Argentina), Un día de furia (Spain), С меня хватит! (Russia), Összeomlás (Hungary), Chute libre (France), Dan ludila (Croatia - imdb display title), L'enragé (Canada - French title), Mia xehoristi mera (Greece - TV title), Pad (Serbia), Prosti pad (Slovenia), Rankka päivä (Finland), Um Dia de Fúria (Brazil), Um Dia de Raiva (Portugal), Un giorno di ordinaria follia (Italy), Upadek (Poland), Volný pád (Czech Republic), Xehoristi mera (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title),

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