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Synopsis: On the day of his daughter's (Joey Hope Singer) birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster (Michael Douglas) is trying to get to his estranged ex-wife's (Barbara Hershey) house to see his daughter. He has a breakdown and leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. Along the way he stops at a convenience store and tries to get some change for a phone call but the owner, Mister Lee (Michael Paul Chan), does not give him change. This destabilizes William who then breaks apart the shop with a baseball bat and goes to an isolated place to drink a coke. Two gangsters (Agustin Rodriguez & Eddie Frias) threaten him and he reacts by hitting them with the bat. D-FENS continues walking and stops at a phone booth. The gangsters hunt him down with their gang and shoot at him but crash their car. William goes nuts and takes their gym bag with weapons proceeding in his journey of rage against injustice. Meanwhile Sergeant Martin Prendergast (Robert Duvall), who is working on his last d
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Joel Schumacher
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
R
Year:
1993
113 min
7,051 Views


that put this together.

Prendergast!

This is Sergeant Prendergast.

Damn fine work, Prendergast.

F*** you, Captain Yardley.

F*** you very much!

REPORTER 2:
I can't believe--

Did he just say that?

YARDLEY:

You're welcome.

PRENDERGAST:
You still here?

SANDRA:
Afraid so.

EMT:
We've stabilized her.

She'll be all right.

PRENDERGAST:

I'll see you at the hospital.

PRENDERGAST:

How are you doing?

I haven't told her yet.

Oh, sh*t!

It's her birthday.

What should I do?

Tell her tomorrow.

Let her have her little party.

-What's your name, darling?

-Adele.

Adele?

That's a nice name.

If I had a little girl,

I'd want her to be named Adele.

-What's yours?

-Mine?

My name is mud.

Your name is not mud.

It will be when my wife

finds out that...

...I'm still a cop.

OFFICER 1:

Excuse me.

Sergeant just signed us out.

OFFlCER 2:
All right, let's eat.

OFFlCER 1:
Where you wanna go?

OFFlCER 2:
Let's go around the corner

and get one of those...

FOSTER:

Look what I got!

Just call him, "Hi, Puppy."

Hi, Puppy.

Hi, Puppy.

There we are!

We got everybody there.

We got everybody--

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Ebbe Roe Smith

Ebbe Roe Smith is an American actor and screenwriter perhaps best known as the writer of the film Falling Down.As an actor Smith is known for such films and television series as Outrageous Fortune, The Big Easy, Fatal Beauty and Murphy Brown. more…

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