Domestic Disturbance | 
| Director: Harold Becker
Actors: John Travolta, Nick Loren, James Lashly, Rebecca Tilney, Debra Mooney
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 13214
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Genre: 0
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
ESRB: Teen
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD337724D
ISBN: 0792178475
UPC: 097363377245
EAN: 9780792178477
ASIN: B00005JKQS
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: April 16, 2002
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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
Product Description
WHEN FRANK MORRISON DISCOVERS THAT HIS SON'S NEW STEPFATHER IS NOT WHO HE PRETENDS TO BE, HE SETS OUT ON A TERRIFYING MISSION TO RESCUE HIS BOY IN THIS THRILLING, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED THRILLER.
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Unoriginal, Short, Predicatble..But Overall Entertaining March 23, 2009
Sebastian Sanjurjo (Miami FL)
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 cliche, 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 OUT OF 5
Worth Renting For A Couple Of Bucks February 7, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
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 February 6, 2009
Chris Gibbs (Fanwood, NJ USA)
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.
 A by the numbers thriller that's way to short April 1, 2008
Derrick Dunn (Woodbridge,VA)
Domestic Disturbance is strictly a by the numbers thriller. Director Harold Becker who made the superior Sea Of Love seems to walk through this film. John Travolta does give a good performance though and Vince Vaughn does ok as the bad guy but I wish he would have been more meancing. After seeing Vaughn in comedy's of late he's pigeonholed in my mind as a comedic actor not a hard a$$.
 The police can be sloppy at times December 10, 2007
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
A simple film, a thriller indeed. It works because the simple violence and menace is wrapped up in a complex and yet simple story about a divorced mother, the custody of a child, the remarrying of the mother and the brilliant newcomer who was accepted at once without any inquiry about who he was in this small community. The conflict between the father and the stepfather with the son in between seems natural and it even makes the police be sloppy about what it is supposed to do. There is of course no real suspense since we know who the criminal is and what the end is going to be. The punch line is directed at the police. The chief of police of this small community is just sorry though he voluntarily neglected simple facts and evidence. Amazing how in our modern societies you just need to say you are sorry to be excused even of your worst negligence and incompetence. That's the new version of the Peter's Principle. When you have reached your level of incompetence just say you're sorry and everything will be just okay and go smooth and you will not be considered as responsible for the few dead people along the road. Who cares about them as long as the social order is not disturbed or menaced.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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