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Domestic Disturbance
Paramount Pictures
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence, brief sexuality and language
Starring
John Travolta,
Vince Vaughn,
Teri Polo,
Matthew O'Leary,
and
Steve Buscemi
When a divorced father (Travolta) discovers that his ex-wife's new husband (Vaughn) is not what he claims to be, he realizes that his son's life may be in danger and is determined to save him.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Lewis Colick (also story)
William S. Comanor (story)
Gary Drucker (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Harold Becker
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 16, 2002
Video: April 16, 2002
Theatrical: November 2, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
88 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Every signifier in this quintessentially American domestic thriller is in satisfying running order.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A thriller that presses all the buttons: parental love, childhood terror, fear of Vince Vaughn.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Doesn't make nearly the ripple it could have made.
63
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A refreshingly unpretentious little thriller.

60
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Although decked out with a legitimate star and handsome production carpentry, pic takes no greater interest in creating three-dimensional characters or fleshing out a credible storyline than does the run-of-the-mill straight-to-video thriller.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
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.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Travolta, a bit portly (or is it starboardly?), phones in his performance from his place in Maine; Vaughn is ice-cool but not especially convincing; the kid is OK, and Polo is a blank.
50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Does a masterful job of building menace until about halfway through.

40
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
It's predictable stuff, though with a nice old-fashioned edge.

38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is a paid holiday for its director, Harold Becker. I say this because I know what Becker is capable of.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Why Travolta is slumming in B movies is anybody's guess. (I'll take a wild flier: "Battlefield Earth"?)

38
USA Today
Mike Clark
Anyone who sees this movie is going to be 20 minutes ahead of it, though there won't be that many after Weekend 1. With domestic disturbances, someone calls the cops. With this DOA, someone had better call the coroner.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
There's almost no reason to see the movie, unless you have no qualms about wasting your time.

38
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Sttrictly movie-of-the-week stuff. And not very good stuff, at that.
30
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The film's subtexts are profoundly reactionary. Women are foolish and untrustworthy.

25
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Few movies feel quite so perfunctory or needless or pointless as this one.

25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The movie is pure product, and proud of it: There isn't a single surprising moment in all of its 88 minutes, because Domestic Disturbance is designed to stick to tried-and-true formulas, instead of shaking them up a little.

20
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
It's clear from the outset that a thriller is going to be big and dumb -- as opposed to tight and smart.

20
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The script is woefully inept, with plot twists that wouldn't pass muster in a high-school drama class.
20
Los Angeles Times
Gene Seymour
So TV-movie-of-the-week that you wonder throughout why you can't use a remote to find a decent ballgame.

20
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Jettisoning any ambition toward thrillerhood, Domestic Disturbance becomes a plodding, obvious angry-dad melodrama, ambling toward the final, fatal showdown between parent and usurper.

20
New Times (L.A.)
Robert Wilonsky
Travolta is stuck giving a remarkable performance in a film so trivial and offensive its mere existence is as loathsome as it is laughable.

20
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
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.

10
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
The most surprising thing about the movie is that somebody bothered to make it in the first place.

10
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
The real "disturbance" in Domestic Disturbance is not in the home, but in the careers of all involved.

10
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Absurd beyond belief or reason.

10
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
As the basest form of genre hootenanny, it wimps out: There's no twist, no showboat acting, not even an outrageous crisis of paternal violence.


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