Falling Down (1993)

Falling Down rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.6/10· 223K votes

Rotten Tomatoes75%

Metacritic56%

TMDb7.393/10· 4K votes

With 75% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.6/10 on IMDb and 56/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Falling Down

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Cast of Falling Down

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  Michael Douglas

  as D-Fens

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  Robert Duvall

  as Prendergast

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  Barbara Hershey

  as Beth

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  Rachel Ticotin

  as Sandra

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  Tuesday Weld

  as Mrs. Prendergast

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  Frederic Forrest

  as Surplus Store Owner

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  Lois Smith

  as D-Fens' Mother

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  Joey Singer

  as Adele (Beth's Child)

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  Ebbe Roe Smith

  as Guy on Freeway

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  Michael Paul Chan

  as Mr. Lee

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  Raymond J. Barry

  as Captain Yardley

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  D.W. Moffett

  as Detective Lydecker

Falling Down facts

Budget

$25M

Box office

$40.9M

Our take on Falling Down

Joel Schumacher's 1993 crime thriller follows an ordinary man, worn down by everything he finds broken in modern society, who snaps and begins lashing out with escalating violence. It's a bleak, deliberately uncomfortable character study that turns one bad day into a march across the city, and it invites you to feel both the character's grievances and the danger he becomes. Expect a tense, morally uneasy tone rather than conventional action heroics. This suits viewers drawn to dark dramas about alienation, urban frustration and men who mistake rage for justice, and anyone who appreciates a lead performance that dares to be genuinely unlikable while remaining oddly human.