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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 28687
Released: April 16, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Frank Morrison finds out that there is more than meets the eye when it comes to his son's new step-father and does all he can to make sure that his son is safe and stays alive.
Genre: Suspense
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 16-APR-2002
Media Type: DVD
Description of Domestic Disturbance:
If you focus on the effective casting of John Travolta and Vince Vaughan, Domestic Disturbance may grab your attention as a thriller that hits too close to home. After playing a greasy villain in Swordfish, Travolta ably serves up the good-guy charm as a divorced father who must rescue his teenage son from a murderous new stepfather, played by Vaughan with bad-tempered relish. Director Harold Becker is worthy of better material (like his earlier hit Sea of Love), but he handles this B-movie potboiler with professional flair, particularly in the setup involving an accomplice (the ever-reliable Steve Buscemi) who threatens to destroy Vaughan's small-town respectability. The plot's about as plausible as Britney Spears in a remake of Sophie's Choice, relying heavily on lame-brained cops and vast chasms in logic, but by the time Travolta and Vaughan engage in their inevitable showdown, even childless viewers may feel a twinge of parental instinct. --Jeff Shannon
Domestic Disturbance Reviews:
Awesome 
2009-11-15 - I Don't care what anybody says this movie rocks. i love this movie. I Recommend it for everyone.
Why do people do these movies 
2009-10-21 - You'd think that anyone involved in this movie would be ashamed to admit it. The plot could have been written by a computer full of hack phrases. The predictable turned into straight jacket fidelity to old and tired plots of B movies. Other than that it was.... pretty bad. The acting was OK, but there was an air of desperation in the faces of the actors. Why? Well -- I can only guess here -- because maybe the director wasn't always paying attention? No, that can't be the case because this was not evidence of randomness -- it was uniformly badly directed. That takes constant attention from a very worthless director working with a screenwriter who has the sophistication of a 12 year old.
Unoriginal, Short, Predicatble..But Overall Entertaining 
2009-03-23 - This is the type of movie that should have been made for Lifetime. The Plot is so simple that there is not one single thing that you could miss. It's like "Stepfather for Dummies". If it weren't for Travolta this movie would not have made it to theaters, it would have gone straight for the tube.
The plot of this so called "quintessential thriller" is of a boy witnessing his stepfather killing a man. No one believers the kid, he always lies, so it's hard to keep track of his truths. But surprisingly he doesn't lie to Daddy Travolta. The only one who believes him is the boy's Father, he will go as far as he can to investigate and find correlative proof that the man living with his son did in fact kill this man.
The plot as you can see is very unoriginal and cliché, it's just not that bright. That doesn't mean however that it isn't unwatchable. The Film is entertaining and logical...it's just too simplified. The thrills are there. But we have seen them so many times before. The acting is ok, the setting and cinematography are all top- notch. The movie would have been better if a little mystery were added into the formula. This is technically speaking "a family thriller"...for 13 and up its fine, it teaches a lesson on who to trust, and who to bring home. But more than anything...it's all pretty obvious and predictable, a rental, not a buy.
MY PERSONAL RATING: 2 ½ OUT OF 5
Worth Renting For A Couple Of Bucks
2009-02-07 - This was a decent thriller with good-guy "Frank Morrison" (John Travolta) trying to save his former family from the dangerous new husband. That's not a new theme in Hollywood movies (the dangerous husband) but this is acted well and presented without heavy-handedness. They were smart to keep the story relatively-short, too, at 89 minutes. As a consequence, nothing dragged.
To me, the film would have been more enjoyable had the 12-year-old boy been a nicer kid, but he's an annoying brat. The mother (Teri Polo) is not that endearing, either. Definitely a movie that will entertain but a one-look film and nothing more, especially with the ending being as predictable as it turned out.
Waste of Time 
2009-02-06 - I actually started predicting during the title roll; I even nailed Hudson as the skeptical cop. But when Steve Buscemi shows up ill-dressed for the fancy wedding, I knew exactly where this was going. (No, not a wood-chipper, just stabbed and incinerated.) This isn't really a bad movie, just a waste of time.
