One's ability to enjoy this film turns on one’s capacity to blindly accept implausibilities, coincidences and unlikelihoods that mount as the story presses forward.
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11/01/01
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Domestic Disturbance (2001)
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Reviews Counted:97
Fresh:23
Rotten:74
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Well-made but extremely predictable, Domestic Disturbance is an average thriller that may work better on TV.
Theatrical Release:Nov 2, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $44,379,332
Synopsis: John Travolta is a simple guy named Frank, a recovering alcoholic struggling to maintain the family shipbuilding business his great grandfather started. Now that his ex-wife Susan (Teri Polo)... [More]
Starring: John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Teri Polo, Steve Buscemi
Director: Harold Becker
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Reviews for Domestic Disturbance
The movie has a suspenseful moment or two, and it's never hard to watch, but it's ultimately one more totally forgettable Hollywood thriller.
11/02/01
It's dire, unimaginative silliness.
11/06/01
Top CriticA small and fuzzy blip in an already very bad film year, as nondescript and uninvolving as its title.
11/02/01
The way Domestic Disturbance plays now, it's as if its first half-hour is missing.
11/02/01
It's likely there's going to be some 'viewer disturbance' going on after audiences catch a whiff of this routine and thrill-less suspenser.
11/04/01
Movies like Domestic Disturbance leave me dispirited. There's nothing likable, exciting, or intriguing about them.
11/04/01
Top CriticAnother simplistic thriller in the child-in-peril vein...
11/01/01
Replacing suspense with formula, Domestic Disturbance doesn't make nearly the ripple it could have made.
11/02/01
Top CriticDomestic Disturbance features John Travolta's twinkly-eyed Phenomenon persona and Vince Vaughn and Teri Polo's shared "I might be a cunning polymer" persona.
10/31/01
With domestic disturbances, someone calls the cops. With this DOA, someone had better call the coroner.
11/02/01
Top CriticThis is low-grade Lifetime fodder at best
06/14/02
Cross 1949's "The Window" with 1987's "The Stepfather," plus a small dash of "Message in a Bottle" and you've got "Domestic Disturbance."
10/31/01
This film quickly sinks into a lame, ultra-predictable storyline that would never have made it past the made-for-cable-TV editorial commission.
02/10/04
The real 'disturbance' is not in the home, but in the careers of all involved.
01/03/02
Hits one predictable plot point after another until its rather sudden conclusion.
02/26/02
The physical details are so unlikely they seem contrived even in a thriller.
11/02/01
Top CriticIt's rather fun to be involved by this plotboiler, harder to be convinced.
11/02/01
Goes through the motions, slowly at first, and then with a speed that would seem remarkable if you cared a whit what was going on.
11/02/01
An adequate diversion for suspense fans, but nothing particularly memorable.
11/02/01
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