Falling Down

Falling Down (1993) is a Warner Bros. crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Joel Schumacher and screenwriter Ebbe Roe Smith built one of the decade's most uncomfortable films around a single sweltering day in Los Angeles.

William Foster, known only as D-Fens (Michael Douglas), abandons his car in gridlock and starts walking across the city to reach his daughter's birthday party. Every small grievance — a price markup at a convenience store, a gang confrontation, a breakfast order served past cutoff time — tips into something violent. Moving in the opposite direction is detective Prendergast (Robert Duvall), working his last shift before retirement. Barbara Hershey plays Foster's ex-wife, who understands exactly what he is capable of.

113 minutes, no breaks. The film is less an action thriller than a slow-burn character study of someone who stopped holding it together long before the opening scene. Watch Falling Down (1993) in full online on iFILM.