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Ebbe Roe Smith (born June 25, 1949) is an American actor and screenwriter, who wrote the film Falling Down. As an actor, Smith has appeared in films and television series such as Outrageous Fortune, The Big Easy, Fatal Beauty and Murphy Brown. Filmography
YearTitleRole2012Mr. Burgess2011Mac1997Bartholomew1994DougieAs “Falling Down” turns 25, TheWrap spoke with the film’s screenwriter, Ebbe Roe Smith, about the circumstances surrounding the making of the film, and whether D-Fens would be #TeamMAGA in the...
Ebbe Roe Smith is an actor, writer and producer born in 1949 in San Diego, California. He has appeared in movies such as Falling Down, The Big Easy and Turner & Hooch, and TV shows such as Portlandia, Grimm and Cheers.
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Falling Down is a 1993 American psychological thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher, written by Ebbe Roe Smith and released by Warner Bros. in the United States on February 26, 1993. The film stars Michael Douglas as William Foster, a divorced and unemployed former defense engineer.
- It was homaged in the Foo Fighters music video Walk. While the similarity between Falling Down and R.E.M.’ s Everybody Hurts video may have been coincidental, a later rock act paid very deliberate homage to Falling Down.
- One website listed it among their most hated 90s films. Falling Down plays a tricky balancing act between being a conventionally entertaining thriller, whilst delving into very real and difficult social issues.
- The film’s LA geography is a mess. Viewers who are familiar with the layout of Los Angeles were quick to point out issues with the film’s geography. D-Fens is supposedly walking from Venice to Lincoln Heights – a walk of about 15 miles, which could feasibly be covered in the length of time it’s shown to take in the movie.
- Unemployed defence workers were also angered by the film. Credit: Le StudioCanal+/Regency Enterprises/ Warner Bros. Falling Down was also met with words of protest from former employees of the defence industry.
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Ebbe Roe Smith was born on June 25, 1949 in San Diego, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Falling Down (1993), The Big Easy (1986) and Turner & Hooch (1989).
