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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | 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 | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Actors: | Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Tuesday Weld, Rachel Ticotin | | Director: | Joel Schumacher | | Format: | Widescreen, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC | | Language: | English, French | | Subtitle: | English, French | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Studio: | Warner Home Video | | Run Time: | 113 minutes | | DVD Release Date: | October 26, 1999 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 185 reviews |
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 Falling Down Mar 07, 2010
Michael Douglas is great in every film he ever made. Just likd dad, Kirk, he is fabulous. He should have been nominated for an Academy Award for this role. I can watch this film over and over again.
Fantastical fantasy Dec 31, 2009
How often do YOU feel at odds with the world?
How often do YOU feel like taking things into your own hands and exacting the kind of 'justice' 'THEY' deserve?
Well, if you feel like me (sometimes), THIS is the movie you have always wanted to be part of.
Ok, maybe Douglas' character DOES go a bit 'over the top', but you can sympathize with a man who just
wants to 'go home', if only the rest of the world will get out of his way and leave him alone.
The fact that he has a restraining order (due to a temper and a half) doesn't seem to deter him from going to celebrate his little girl's birthday.
I don't want to give TOO much away but there is a fantastic part that involves a phone box - "I think it's out of order".
Suffice to say, that Douglas IS the man pushed to the brink by EVERYDAY things - and people.
He plays the part to perfection, as do most of the cast. The movie is dark but funny in places, but mainly it is a 'feel good' movie IN REVERSE.
It deals with all the stupid pitiful things that annoy the rest of us - like 'road works' that really don't need to be. (You'll love how he deals with THAT!)
Above all, he is just a man, like you and me, but a man who really is still used to another era, before it all got caught up in the rat race of everyday 'life' and circumstance, notwithstanding he has just lost his job. I think I'd be angry too.
Another favourite scene of mine is the fast food restaurant. Great stuff!!
I could watch this movie over and over. I think you will too. Enjoy!!
Great Purchase Nov 22, 2009
This was a great item at a great price. The product is defect free and in very good condidtion.
THRILLER WITHOUT SENTIMENT Sep 10, 2009
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 Sep 07, 2009
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!
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