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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
6,887 Views


-Let me see your driver's license.

-What for?

It'll have your address on it.

-I don't have a license.

-You drove all the way without it?

Are you a cop?

Let's see your car registration

and your car.

All right, forget it.

Okay, just forget it!

MAN:
That's a hell of a way

to treat a vet, man.

-You're an animal doctor?

-No, a veteran. I was in Nam.

FOSTER:

You must've been 10 years old.

I meant to say the Gulf.

Come on! All I'm asking for

is a little change.

I haven't eaten in three days.

Well, I mean, except for this.

F*** it! Give me some money, man.

Just give me some money.

How about a dime?

Give it to me.

I'm not giving you any.

-You got a cigarette?

-No.

-You gotta give me something.

-Why don't you get a job?

This is my park. I live here!

Who are you, walking

through my park with two bags?

I don't got any. Is that fair?

What's in those bags, anyway?

Give me one.

I could sell those bags

and eat for a week with the money.

You've got two of them.

Why do you need two?

You're right.

Here.

-Are you serious?

-I don't need it anymore.

All right! Come on, now.

Come on. What the--

Son of a b*tch!

JONES:
Can we cut the crap this time?

ANGIE:
I'm telling you the truth!

JONES:

Yeah, right.

PRENDERGAST:
What's up?

KEENE:
She was at the drive-by.

SANCHEZ:
Angie, who hit your guys?

ANGIE:
I told you.

JONES:
We know. The big bad white man.

We're not buying it.

SANCHEZ:

Who are you protecting?

They put your boyfriend in the hospital.

He's probably dead.

Do you realize that?

He's probably f***ing dead!

ANGIE:
Stop saying that!

KEENE:
You picked a good day to leave.

SANCHEZ:
You want another 3-year-old

to get shot in the head?

Is that what you want?

Tell me the truth!

I'm telling you the truth!

It was a white guy!

JONES:
Why would he go for your friends?

ANGIE:
I don't know!

He attacked them on Angel's Flight Hill

with a baseball bat!

PRENDERGAST:
A baseball bat?

Wait!

Baseball bat.

What did this guy look like?

I don't know.

He looked like you...

...except he was taller and had hair.

JONES:

Good description, Angie!

Did he wear a white shirt and tie?

SANCHEZ:

Come over here, will you?

We gotta keep the pressure on her.

Don't interrupt.

What about the bat?

-The white shirt and tie!

-What will she think of next?

I'm sorry you're leaving,

but you are.

-Sanchez, listen to me!

-Check me later, babe.

PRENDERGAST:

Hey, Brian?

Remember that storekeeper,

the Korean guy?

-Mr. Lee?

-Come here.

PRENDERGAST:

Where was his place?

Right there.

He was assaulted

sometime after 8 a.m.?

-About that.

-And the drive-by was here, right?

What's going on?

I may be nuts, but Angel's Flight Hill

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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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