Falling Down

Things become too much for a reserved father as life’s annoyances push him to breaking point. When he is sent over the edge, the results turn catastrophic., Things become too much for a reserved father as life??s annoyances push him to breaking point. When he is sent over the edge, the results turn catastrophic. Thriller., Life becomes too much for a reserved father as life’s annoyances continually push him to breaking point. When he is sent over the edge, the results turn catastrophic., Intense drama about a middle-aged man who reaches breaking point while gridlocked in Los Angeles traffic on a sweltering day. He abandons his car and embarks on a violent spree across town, increasing his arsenal of weapons after each confrontation. A detective who is working his last day with the LAPD before retiring begins receiving reports of the various incidents – and eventually realises that one man links them all., Michael Douglas stars in Joel Schumacher’s classic thriller as a psychotic ex-defence worker who reaches boiling point and wages a one man war against the world., An average guy who has been recently laid off suddenly has an emotional and mental breakdown as he confronts one frustration after another on the way to his daughter’s birthday party., It’s just not William Foster’s (Michael Douglas) day. Laid off from his defense job, Foster gets stuck in the middle of the mother of all traffic jams. Desirous of attending his daughter’s birthday party at the home of his ex-wife (Barbara Hershey), Foster abandons his car and begins walking, encountering one urban humiliation after another (the Korean shopkeeper who obstinately refuses to give change is the worst of the batch). He also slowly unravels mentally, finally snapping at a fast-food restaurant that refuses to serve him breakfast because it’s “too late.” Running amok with an arsenal of weapons at the ready, Foster — also known as “D-FENS” because of his vanity license plate — rapidly becomes a source of terror to some, a folk hero to others. It’s up to reluctant cop Prendergast (Robert Duvall), on the eve of his retirement, to bring D-FENS down.