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  • 1984
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 1984
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the...

Directed By: Ulu Grosbard

Written By: Michael Cristofer

  • 1984
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 1984
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m

Falling in Love

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the...

Directed By: Ulu Grosbard

Written By: Michael Cristofer

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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67% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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The Streep-De Niro show is bringing back the sizzle and savor of the golden age of movie couples. [03 Dec 1984, p.78]
By Jack Kroll FULL REVIEW
70
The shock of seeing tough guy De Niro as suburban dad Frank, falling in love with suburban mum Meryl Streep after a chance encounter, was insurmountable for some film goers. But time and distance lend this modern Brief Encounter (with added adultery) a certain glow and De Niro and Streep repeat the chemistry they first showed in the Deer Hunter. They were born to act together.
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60
Falling in Love is a nice movie, a holiday movie with a Christmas setting with a happy ending. It's a Christmas shoppers' matinee and a commuters' guide to love in the afternoon, but not exactly an affair to remember.
By Rita Kempley FULL REVIEW
50
It's pleasant to see these two in a picture where they're not carrying all the sins of mankind of their shoulders, but they've gone too far in the opposite direction--they're not carrying anything.
By Pauline Kael FULL REVIEW
50
Falling in Love isn't consistently dull; it's funny in spots, particularly during an opening montage of scenes in which the principals are doing their Christmas Eve shopping, and almost meet a bunch of times. But the shift from not meeting to meeting does not generate much drama. [21 Nov 1984, p.C1]
By Bill Cosford FULL REVIEW
50
The stars are Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep -- arguably the two most distinguished American movie actors under fifty. They have a genuine chemistry together on the screen and undeniable charisma. And that's it in this movie, which gives them not one memorable line of dialogue, not one inventive situation, not one moment when we don't groan at the startling array of clichés they have to march through.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
40
Can contemporary romance be this flat?
By Paul Attanasio FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Paramount Pictures
Release Date Nov 21, 1984
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating PG-13
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Awards

Sant Jordi Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
David di Donatello Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards
• 1 Nomination

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