Release Year: 1993 Rating: R Duration: 113 minutes Other Title: Chute libre Director: Joel Schumacher Producer: Timothy Harris, Arnold Kopelson, Herschel Weingrod
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.
cast
Michael Douglas as William Foster/D-Fens
quote
Bill Foster: You're Korean? Do you have any idea how much money my country has given your country?
Shop Owner: How much?
Bill Foster: I don't know. But, it's gotta be a lot.
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In the opening of 1993's FALLING DOWN, a man known mainly by his vanity license plate name, D-FENS, has reached his breaking point. Stuck in a traffic jam that goes on forever, his air-conditioning has gone on the fritz, the kids in the school bus nearby are hanging out their windows screaming and a pesky fly is driving him crazy. Doing what we all fantasize about, he walks out of his vehicle and declares he's had it. As his figure disappears on the horizon, his fellow drivers are left dumbstruck as to what to make of this act of courage or insanity.