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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 7202
Released: October 26, 1999 |
| Our Price: $4.52 |
| Used Price: $1.96 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A man who has lost his job and his marriage takes a walk through the troubled urban landscape of Los Angeles on a hot, destructive day, with a retiring police officer trying to anticipate the next stop.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 8-FEB-2005
Media Type: DVD
Description of Falling Down:
This film, about a downsized engineer (Michael Douglas) who goes ballistic, triggered a media avalanche of stories about middle-class white rage when it was released in 1993. In fact, it's nothing more than a manipulative, violent melodrama about one geek's meltdown. Douglas, complete with pocket protector, nerd glasses, crewcut, and short-sleeved white shirt, gets stuck in traffic one day near downtown L.A. and proceeds to just walk away from his car--and then lose it emotionally. Everyone he encounters rubs him the wrong way--and a fine lot of stereotypes they are, from threatening ghetto punks to rude convenience store owners to a creepy white supremacist--and he reacts violently in every case. As he walks across L.A. (now there's a concept), cutting a bloody swath, he's being tracked by a cop on the verge of retirement (Robert Duvall). He also spends time on the phone with his frightened ex-wife (Barbara Hershey). Though Douglas and Duvall give stellar performances, they can't disguise the fact that, as usual, this is another film from director Joel Schumacher that is about surface and sensation, rather than actual substance. --Marshall Fine
Falling Down Reviews:
Great Purchase 
2009-11-22 - This was a great item at a great price. The product is defect free and in very good condidtion.
THRILLER WITHOUT SENTIMENT
2009-09-10 - Michael Douglas gives the performance of his career as a bright engineer who got divorced from wife and child, and got made redundant by the company. Back home with his mother, his emotionally retarded handling of life's stresses finally take him gently over the edge when he gets car rage in a freeway jam. Then the rude storekeeper rubs him a little more raw. And his shoe has a hole in the sole, he can afford newspaper to fix it. The homies want to steal his empty briefcase. Boy, it is hot. Whammyburger won't serve him breakfast. The stupid incompetent homies want to shoot him now. His wife freaks when he gives her phone harassment. The gun-nut redneck storekeeper wants to arrest him for not hating faggots. Nobody cares, he can't do anything about it. But he knows one thing: even though the restraining order says he can't go home, he is going home, it is his little girl's birthday, and he is not the bad guy. The gun went off by mistake in Whammyburger. One of the cops investigating has interesting problems too, but he is emotionally literate and he comes into his own in the twilight of his career.
The whole thing builds perfectly and it is impossible not to feel for obsolete engineer daddy. If only he knew how to express his feelings. The action just keeps rolling as the plot unrolls, it is absolutely paced like a metronome, and you don't know what is going to happen next. The humour is dark, but the laughs are there. So are the tears. It's an original made out of clichés.
I am not economically viable 
2009-09-07 - I saw this movie way back then when it was on HBO and I was 12, can you believe that, folks let me watch it, with all the cussing, and violence. I didn't understand the undertones of the movie it self, the meaning i should say back then. I was 12, thinking oh cool watching an R rated flick. over the years this movie stuck with me, a great performance by Douglas, as I am not a big Joel Schumacher fan, even though his little "indie" film Tigerland was great. I liked this one too. Over time I realized the storyline, the plight you can say about what Douglas is going through. Middle Age guy, loses job, family, seeing world deteriorate in front of him, the ugliness of America.... hello Capitalism! Hello Merchandise! Buy! Buy! Buy! Why can't we order Breakfast at McD's or Burger King just 3 minutes after 11:30? Come on now! Cause some guy with a Junior College Degree says we can't cause he has the cool headset and dictates what why we can't get a Breakfast sammy.
LOL sorry anyways. With the advent of technology 16 years later, hello Blu Ray, I saw this title finally coming to Blu Ray, with new commentary by Douglas and Schumacher! Just watched the film.... and WOW, with our economic times where it is now.... this films really resonates in the 21st century as it did in the early 90's. Watching this 15 years later just blew me away, I forgot how deep a story this is! Another movie about middle aged guys, over educated, and sees the redundancy of corporate America is American Beauty, another great movie. As I like to say "I didn't know this was pick on the middle age square guy today" Even though I am not even 40 yet, is this what my generation has to look forward too in 20 something years? History repeates itself don't it!
Anyways back to the movie, picture on the Blu Ray, flawless, WB, did a nice job on the clarity, for a movie that's like 16 years old. Haven't watched it with commentary yet, but will, sure there will be some interesting insight from Douglas. I recommend this movie, like I said, this movie resonates what we're going through now, crazy!
HORRIBLE SERVICE!!!!!!! 
2009-09-04 - Beware everyone this person is very untrustworthy, i ordered a film from this person in June, and it still hasnt come, I sent him two messages about the status of my order, and he never replied to either.
Bad Guy?
2009-08-19 - Way under rated film about the 'I want it yesterday' America of the '90's. Michael Douglas is superb as Bill Foster, whose world, and psyche suddenly crumbles one day in a L.A. traffic jam. He takes us on his own, "Heart Of Darkness" journey as he reacts to situations as he sees fit. Heartbreaking conclusion leaves us with two questions Bill Foster incredulously asks: "I'm the bad guy!? How did I get to be the bad guy?"
There's a Bill Foster in all of us. We are fortunate enough (so far) to keep him secure...
