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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.

Runtime: 89 mins

Genre: Dramas

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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Christopher Tookey
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A fog of by-the-numbers clichés, unbelievable coincidences, and blatant theft from Hitchcock.

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Rich Cline
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Shadows on the Wall

Domestic Disturbance is the sort of ho-hum thriller where the police are so dim-witted they search a furnace that's full of fresh dead guy and find ... nothing.

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Mr. Travolta is a loose and open actor, full of energy and charm, but it is hard to think of anyone who has wasted so much talent in so many bad pictures.

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A small and fuzzy blip in an already very bad film year, as nondescript and uninvolving as its title.

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Stripped down to the dumbest fundamentals of the family thriller genre, the movie plays like it's been test-screened to appeal within microns of audiences' basest common instincts.

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11/02/01
Bob Strauss
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Los Angeles Daily News

Although it's formulaic to the hilt, Domestic Disturbance ratchets up the tension like a fine whine.

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