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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.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for violence, brief sexuality and language
Runtime: 89 mins
Genre: Dramas
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)... 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) divorced him, his son Danny (Matt O'Leary) is constantly at the police station for one problem or another. So when Susan marries charming Rick (Vince Vaughn), Frank thinks he will provide the financial stability that Danny needs to clean up his act. Then, a mysterious Ray (Steve Buscemi) rolls into town and claims to be an old friend of Rick's. But Rick tells a different story, making Frank wary of them both. When Ray suddenly disappears, Danny claims that he witnessed Rick murder him. Susan thinks it's just another one of Danny's lies, but Frank isn't so sure. He investigates Rick's background and finds that Rick isn't at all what he appears to be. Director Harold Becker (SEA OF LOVE) delivers thrills and melodrama and the film is like a dreaming dog--quietly still, punctured by jolts of movement. Vaughn is subtly menacing and Travolta is as affable as a retriever, but it's Buscemi who really lights up the screen with a sleazy wariness that is hilarious. [More]
Starring: John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Teri Polo, Steve Buscemi
Starring: John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Teri Polo, Steve Buscemi, Matthew O'Leary
Director: Harold Becker
Director: Harold Becker
Screenwriter: Lewis Colick
Producer: Donald DeLine, Jonathan Krane
Composer: Mark Mancina
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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Reviews for Domestic Disturbance
The movie seems to have been slapped together by an editor with attention-deficit disorder... introduces a new, risible complication with nearly every scene...
Director Harold Becker helms what amounts to be a generic psychological drama that is about as complicated as a same-colored Rubix cube.
Hits one predictable plot point after another until its rather sudden conclusion.
A fog of by-the-numbers clichés, unbelievable coincidences, and blatant theft from Hitchcock.
The real 'disturbance' is not in the home, but in the careers of all involved.
It's depressing, but you could swing a soccer mom through a multiplex and hit a half-dozen other American movies as mindless as this one.
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