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People have lost their family homes, and there’s no one to fall back on when times get hard.

But because Jem, like so many of these characters, is underwritten, Bean has to fall back on generalized manly intensity, which turns their showdowns into actorly exercises.

When it came to the canine side of the cast, Indy had to give his own vocal performance and could not fall back on professional actors to dub him.

Without a clear record of how hunger spreads and persists, politicians can fall back on the familiar script: bad budgeting, poor choices, individual responsibility.

She said the family often faced stigma when they produced their Pakistani identity documents, but at least they had something to fall back on - for the sisters even that is not an option anymore.