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William (D-FENS) just wants to get home to see his daughter on her birthday. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be going right for him. First there's the traffic jam, then the unhelpful Korean shopkeeper who "doesn't give change". D-FENS begins to crack and starts to fight back against the every day "injustices" he encounters on his journey home. The film has a story running in parallel about a desk-bound cop who is about to retire. He's retiring for his wife's sake, and obviously isn't happy about it. The cop tracks down D-FENS and in the final scene.....
A laid-off defense worker, kept from seeing his child on her birthday by a restraining order, looks at the landscape of moral decay in Los Angeles on one hot, congested day and, after being mugged, snaps. What follows is his bitter and pathetic mission of justice, vengeance and vindication that reads uncomfortably like too many news stories. Michael Douglas is identified only by his character's license plate, D-FENS, in this attack on social ills, a film originally seen as the displacement of power felt by many white American males.
12 juni 1991, Los Angeles, de warmste dag van het jaar. Een ontslagen medewerker van het Ministerie van Defensie staat door wegwerkzaamheden al de hele ochtend in de file. Hij besluit uit de auto te stappen en naar het huis van zijn ex-vrouw te wandelen, waar zijn dochtertje haar verjaardag viert. Maar de man heeft een nogal agressief karakter en wordt tijdens zijn wandeling opgehitst door alles wat in zijn ogen onrechtvaardig is in deze maatschappij. Een agent van het LAPD die met pensioen gaat krijgt het op zijn laatste werkdag aan de stok met de man.
It's just not William Foster's (Michael Douglas) day. Laid off from his defense job, Foster gets stuck in the middle of the mother of all traffic jams. Desirous of attending his daughter's birthday party at the home of his ex-wife (Barbara Hershey), Foster abandons his car and begins walking, encountering one urban humiliation after another (the Korean shopkeeper who obstinately refuses to give change is the worst of the batch). He also slowly unravels mentally, finally snapping at a fast-food restaurant that refuses to serve him breakfast because it's "too late." Running amok with an arsenal of weapons at the re...
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ady, Foster -- also known as "D-FENS" because of his vanity license plate -- rapidly becomes a source of terror to some, a folk hero to others. It's up to reluctant cop Prendergast (Robert Duvall), on the eve of his retirement, to bring D-FENS down.
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One day away from retirement, a L.A. cop finds himself on the trail of a regular guy driven over the edge by the pressures of daily life.
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