FALLING DOWN

GENRE:  Crime/ Drama/ Thriller
MADE:  1993
CAST:  Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey
DIRECTOR:  Joel Schumacher
WRITER:  Ebbe Roe Smith

PLOT:  It's a hot day and as the temperature slowly rises so does William Foster's anger towards all the little things he is frustrated with.  Out of a job and wanting to deliver a gift to his daughter Foster goes through a hell of a lot to make it happen.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Game, Dog Day Afternoon, Wonder Boys

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THE WAR OF THE ROSES

GENRE:  Comedy
MADE:  1989
CAST:  Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito
DIRECTOR:  Danny DeVito
WRITER:  Warren Adler, Michael Leeson

PLOT:  During a hostile divorce a married couple does everything to get the other to leave.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Secret Of My Success, Romancing The Stone, Death To Smoochy

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TRAFFIC

GENRE:  Crime/ Drama/ Thriller
MADE:  2000
CAST:  Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones
DIRECTOR:  Steven Soderbergh
WRITER:  Simon Moore, Stephen Gaghan

PLOT:  Robert Wakefield has taken the role of the head-honcho against the war on drugs, in the middle of his work taking down the notable drug-traffickers he finds that his own daughter is an addict.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Requiem For A Dream, Trainspotting, Blow, The Basketball Diaries

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ROMANCING THE STONE

GENRE:  Action/ Adventure/ Comedy
MADE:  1984
CAST:  Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito
DIRECTOR:  Robert Zemeckis
WRITER:  Diane Thomas, Lem Dobbs, Howard Franklin, Treva Silverman

PLOT:  When Romance novelist Joan Wilder gets a call from Columbia that her sister has been kidnapped she gets on the first plane out to save her.  Yes, Joan may have been a bit naive about the situation and about how simple it was going to get her sister back, but luckily for Joan she runs into rough around the edges Jack.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Blood Diamond, Indiana Jones And The Temple Doom, King Kong, Children Of Men

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THE GAME

GENRE:  Drama/ Mystery/ Thriller
MADE:  1997
CAST:  Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn
DIRECTOR:  David Fincher
WRITER:  John D. Brancato, Michael Ferris

PLOT:  Nicholas Van Orton is a wealthy man with some issues about death that has haunted him since his father's suicide long ago.  When his birthday comes around he receives a strange birthday gift from him younger brother that would change the rest of his life.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Fight Club, Memento, V for Vendetta

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