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Falling Down is a 1993 crime-drama film directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Ebbe Roe Smith. The film starring Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall and Barbara Hershey.

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Plot: William Foster (Michael Douglas) is recently divorced, and his ex-wife Beth (Barbara Hershey) has a restraining order to keep Foster away from her and their child, Adele. In addition, Foster was laid off the previous month by the defense agency for which he worked. His frustration grows as, on an extremely hot day, his air conditioning malfunctions and a fly pesters him as he is stuck in a traffic jam. Becoming increasingly upset and stressed, he abandons his vehicle and begins walking across Los Angeles toward the home of Beth and Adele to attend Adele’s birthday party. Foster stops at a convenience store to get change for a telephone call, but, when the Korean store owner (Michael Paul Chan) refuses to give change unless he buys something, Foster begins ranting at him for charging unreasonably high prices. The owner demands Foster leave the store and pulls out a baseball bat, which Foster forcibly takes. Foster announces a rolling back of prices, destroys much of the merchandise, then pays 50 cents for an 85-cent can of Coca-Cola before leaving. After walking a while, he stops on a hillside where he patches a hole in the sole of his shoe with a piece of newspaper. He is then approached by two gang members who claim he is "trespassing" on their ground. They demand he pay a "toll" - his briefcase - and threaten him with a knife after Foster unsuccessfully attempts to leave. Foster attacks them with his bat. As they flee, he places the knife in his pocket and continues his journey.
The two gang members, seeking revenge, pick up another gang member and cruise the streets until they find Foster using a phone booth in a run down neighborhood. The gang members spray the street with gun fire, hitting several bystanders, but leaving Foster unscathed. As they attempt to escape, the driver loses control and crashes into a parked vehicle. Foster taunts the one surviving gang member, picks up a dropped Uzi, shoots him in the leg, and then walks away taking their gym bag full of weapons with him. In a nearby park, Foster encounters a panhandler begging for money even as Foster queries his phony hard-luck story. To the panhandler's great surprise, Foster suddenly gives him the briefcase, which, to the panhandler's displeasure, contains only a sandwich and apple. Foster next enters a Whammy Burger fast food restaurant and attempts to order breakfast, however, the switch to the lunch menu occurred three minutes prior to his arrival. After a tense argument with the patronizing manager, Foster draws a TEC-9 from the gym bag and accidentally fires into the ceiling. After trying to reassure the frightened employees and customers, Foster decides to order lunch, but is annoyed when the burger looks nothing like the one shown on the menu board. Foster leaves, tries to call Beth from a telephone booth, and then shoots the telephone to pieces when being rudely hassled by someone who also wants to use the phone. This string of events draws the attention of Prendergast (Robert Duvall), an LAPD sergeant.

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