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Falling Down

CrimeDramaThriller

Directed by Joel Schumacher

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

160 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works

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Falling Down is a 1993 crime drama thriller film, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall and Barbara Hershey.

  • 149 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
  • posts span Aug 10, 2015 to Nov 5, 2026

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  • Hallow’s Books, Movies, and TV @hallowshaunt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2026

    Any fans of the 1993 movie Falling Down?

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2026

    Falling Down (1993) Directed by Joel Schumacher

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2025

    Falling Down (1993) Directed by Joel Schumacher

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  • Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 26, 2024

    The crowd is chanting “Defense” but I am chanting “D-Fens,” the name of Michael Douglas’s protagonist character in the 1993 Joel Schumacher film “Falling Down.”

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  • LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 19, 2026

    When Todd Phillips said that Joker was a film about “mental illness” what he meant was he saw Falling Down and was like what if Falling Clown

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  • Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2025

    The crowd is saying “De-fense,” but I am yelling “D-Fens,” the name of Michael Douglas’s protagonist character from the 1993 Joel Schumacher film “Falling Down.”

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  • Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2026

    The movie FALLING DOWN is praised for the wrong reasons. The Duvall character, who decently soldiers on w/kindness, while managing a wife with mental health issues, and who DOESN'T "fall down" is the heart of it all. His most brilliant role, imho. Rest in peace. 95! A great run.

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  • It's Going Down @igd.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    "[A] Livingston political organizer and abortion-rights advocate, spent five hours on Sept. 23, the second day of filming, shouting "Ben Shapiro is a cuck" into a megaphone to the tune of "London Bridge Is Falling Down," according to the Chronicle." www.rawstory.com/ben-shaprio-...

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  • Zinnia Jones 🐍🗡️ @zinniajones.comBluesky · Jan 25, 2025

    Falling Down is such a thoroughly hateful movie, just a bleak and meaningless spasm of continuous racism and psychotic violence

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  • Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2024

    OH MY GOD I JUST GOT AN UPDATE ON THIS I DID NOT PROVIDE ENOUGH INFORMATION FAST ENOUGH SO I HAVE TO INITIATE A SECOND APPEAL BY CALLING A SEPARATE NUMBER YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS RIDICULOUS SHIT UP THE PROVIDER IS WELLCARE THIS IS HOW THE MOVIE "FALLING DOWN" STARTED

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  • more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2026

    this but they merge to create the movie Falling Down

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  • Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2024

    Falling Down is an interesting movie because it feels like it’s spending the first two acts trying to convince you that Michael Douglas isn’t that bad and in fact relatable, then it finally starts to reveal that the cops are just realistically disinterested in their jobs and he’s absolutely a threat

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  • GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.comBluesky · Feb 5, 2024

    a hill i won’t die on but will conditionally defend is that FALLING DOWN is not intended to make a hero or an antihero out of michael douglas’ character, he is the villain of the movie and is clearly intended as such all the way through.

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Falling Down (1993) By Barry Ballaran

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  • Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2025

    You couldn’t film Falling Down today (because of the fires).

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  • ✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2026

    Okay I’m gonna rewatch FALLING DOWN tonight and I’ll analyze it because film student now 😤

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  • Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blogBluesky · Mar 26, 2025

    With the best of intentions, the left leaning guy who's into Taxi Driver (1976), Scum (1979), Made In Britain (1982), Falling Down (1993), Fight Club (1999), This Is England (2006) and the wider genre of this kind of film made with mostly liberal intentions has very particular feelings about women.

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  • Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2024

    Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are Muppets Falling Down Michael Douglas

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  • David Schrader 🇺🇦 #NoKings #TheOtherWay @dogman486.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 17, 2026

    I remember a kind of low flying movie with Robert Duvall called 'Falling Down'. He's not the main character, but that whole movie was good ‼️👍❤️‍🩹

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    Falling Down (1993) Directed by Joel Schumacher

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  • 💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 17, 2026

    I finally just watched Falling Down and there's plenty of interesting things to say about that flick, but also it's wild watching a movie where everyone has their original faces and teeth.

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  • Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    The MacArthur Park scene from Falling Down has one of my favorite throwaway lines of dialogue in any movie, where Michael Douglas asks the guy bugging him if he’s an animal doctor after he says that he’s a vet.

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  • Tyler @tylerfg.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2025

    Watched "Falling Down" for the first time recently and was absolutely gobsmacked when I reached the best frame of the movie

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  • Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.comBluesky · Nov 1, 2024

    The movie Falling Down but at the end instead of getting killed by a cop after realizing he's the bad guy, Michael Douglas is elected president

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  • Clinton of the Damned 🎃👻 @puritythrufire.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    Picking a (not so) random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #276 "Falling Down" (Joel Schumacher/1993) Just an excellent, angry at the world film. Hell of a cast in this one as well. Check it out. I'm going home...

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  • The Texas Hot Wing Massacre, Derek Smith @darathus.xyzBluesky · Sep 18, 2025

    Re-visiting the movie Falling Down. Feels all too relevant.

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  • Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2026

    "Aggrieved White Dude Does Violence Because World Doesn't Cater to Him" Genre is wide open... Falling Down, The Joker, Taxi Driver, Fight Club, etc. Bonus points for RW misinterpretation of a film critiquing them. Beyond film, I would also include sections on GamerGate and the Sad Puppies.

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  • k_the_(spo)okayest 🩻 @ktheokayest.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    I love the movie Falling Down but only because I understand why it's so problematic. But there are people who praise it about a man who had enough of a cruel world and started fighting back. You guys, that is not the plot. Not even fucking close. He is a sociopathic, family abusing, suicidal racist.

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  • CynicalTherapist @cynicaltherapist.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2026

    I hope Robert Duvall's passing gets the youths interested in the best movie ever: Falling Down.

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  • Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2025

    How can I prevent my kids’ schools from ever again adopting new communications/record-keeping platform? I’m at the breaking point. It’s like the movie Falling Down, but for school platforms.

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  • Tariq, the Movie Critic @tarialle25.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2025

    #mayfilmchallenge May 17 - A Movie I Like in the 1990s Falling Down (1993) I watched this movie a lot when I was little because it dealt with society.

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  • LeberMac @lebermac.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 29, 2026

    It's "Falling Down", by the way. The movie. I should have called that out...

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  • CaptainGrapeDrink @cgd-2.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2025

    Replace a character in a movie with a wrestler: Roddy Strong in Falling Down 🤼

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  • Mom @milph.momBluesky · Aug 25, 2025

    It reminds me of that one scene from Falling Down (God, I love that movie) where D Fens is having a freakout at the restaurant but he’s getting mad at the regular service worker who doesn’t have control over breakfast rules or the inaccurate food pictures. youtu.be/hlzm7-gvTRg

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  • Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phdBluesky · Mar 22, 2024

    thought of a meme maybe 2 people would get so rather than make it i'll just describe it to clear it from my mental inventory: poster for the Michael Douglas film 'Falling Down' but replace Douglas holding his briefcase and shotgun with Bob Mortimer bedecked with his fishing regalia

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  • Brian Box Brown @boxbrown.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2026

    My hot take: This movie sucks. Falling Down is the superior film. Bronson so not a bad ass and a terrible actor.

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  • Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.comBluesky · Jun 21, 2026

    Arrow's new 4k of Joel Schumacher's Falling Down (1993) does this fucking banger of a film real justice, and I'm tickled to be a part of it with a booklet essay included in this stacked release

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  • Dan @kingklonoa.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 18, 2025

    3 - Falling Down (1993) Fun movie about a sweet, loving father who just wants to get home in time for his daughter's birthday party. Has absolutely nothing to say about society.

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  • Tariq, the Movie Critic @tarialle25.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2026

    Happy 82nd birthday to this legendary actor, Michael Douglas! My favorite movie starring him will always be Falling Down. The reason why is because I can understand that we all have bad days and I can relate to his character. #Filmsky #Moviesky #September

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  • zheanna 🔮 @zheanna.lolBluesky · Apr 4, 2024

    my official review of the 1993 film Falling Down the guy didn't even fucking fall down. they should have called it Doing A Shitsload Of Walking

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  • Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 25, 2024

    (The story is from 1993; the subject is Ebbe Roe Smith, who wrote the Joel Schumacher-Michael Douglas film Falling Down.)

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  • Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2026

    Triumph of the Will, Christopher Nolan's Batman movies, Falling Down, Red Dawn, Ghostbusters, cold war thrillers, Reagan era action blockbusters, big government 70s dystopias like A Clockwork Orange. Apparently Yukio Mishima directed a film, so that would be worth considering.

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  • The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.comBluesky · Nov 21, 2023

    This reads like the blurb on the back of the DVD for the movie ‘Falling Down’.

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  • Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2025

    Ha! Film people talk about how 1999 was one of the peak years in film... Matrix Fight Club Office Space Falling Down ... all white collar white guys in crisis. Adjusted for inflation, they all made $260k. That would fix a lot of my problems and there'd be no movie.

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  • Chris A. 🎃 @letseatnachos.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2026

    95 is a good run. sorry to see him go, whatever you think about Falling Down, his performance in that movie mesmerized teenage me

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  • Avian Face-Tool 🦡 @beakmoo.bsky.socialBluesky · May 17, 2025

    I'm watching the Michael Douglas film Falling Down. I haven't seen it since it came out, remember it as excellent.

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  • Dire Wolf @addiane.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2024

    I think about the movie Falling Down a lot. That's what's happening in the US right now.

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  • Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2026

    The Swimmer = Falling Down in swimming trunks. That is the end of my film studies lecture. That’s all.

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  • 👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2025

    Every whiny little pissbaby crying over this film has jerked it to Falling Down.

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  • Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2024

    If you’re in the NY area, there’s a July 12 screening of Falling Down (1993) with post-film discussion

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  • Joel @jladouc.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2026

    The End of Oak Street (2026) Capricorn One (1977) The Night Eats the World (2018) Falling Down (1993) 🔄 #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

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  • Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2025

    In fact, if Falling Down were an op-ed instead of a movie, it would be David Brooks' column today.

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  • Abbott and Costello Meet MikeZilla Minus Zero (#15584) @mikeymcfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2026

    My ★★★★★ review of Falling Down on Letterboxd: boxd.it/fvmdzL #265MovieReview #movies #filmsky 📽️

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  • Not a newt @[email protected]Lemmy · Nov 2, 2026

    Several films on my list have already been mentioned, so here's two that have been overlooked: * Falling Down * Gran Torino

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  • 🔩All Hallow’s Joan🐈‍⬛ @screwedjoan.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2026

    the infamous Fast Food breakfast scene from Falling Down (1993) is the main thing people remember about that movie because its premise is absurd and darkly funny but still plausible as something a really mad american customer could do, which is the movie’s main(only?) claim to being a satire.

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  • Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2026

    "Today we're going to watch the movie Falling Down, a story of a man who is having a mental health crisis...and if you're Falling Down, maybe today's sponsors can help: Betterhelp!"

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  • 🎃ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 ℑ𝔞𝔫👻 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2026

    I am going to become the Left version of Mr. Falling Down in the classic movie "Falling Down"

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  • Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2025

    In the reboot of Falling Down the film ends with D-Fens getting a six-figure deal to host a show on Fox

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  • James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2023

    They should turn the Falling Down episode of It's Always Sunny into a feature film

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  • Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2024

    "Falling Down" is a much better movie.

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