Domestic Disturbance

Domestic Disturbance (2001)

  • 23% of critics liked it
    (98 reviews)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (42,082 ratings)

John Travolta stars in this thriller as divorced husband and father Frank Morrison, a boat builder concerned about his son Danny (Matthew O'Leary), a troubled 11-year-old who has shown a tendency to lie since his parents broke up. When his ex-wife Susan (Teri Polo) announces that she's… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Lewis Colick
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Nov 2, 2001 Wide
Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

    It's dire, unimaginative silliness.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    Movies like Domestic Disturbance leave me dispirited. There's nothing likable, exciting, or intriguing about them.

  • Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

    It's big and dumb, all right -- the sort of thing you'd like to shoot with an elephant gun to put out of its misery.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    Does a masterful job of building menace until about halfway through.

  • Spence D., IGN Movies

    This film quickly sinks into a lame, ultra-predictable storyline that would never have made it past the made-for-cable-TV editorial commission.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Nicki M


    Quite dull for a thriller and lacking in storyline. I would be seriously annoyed if I paid money to see this at the cinema instead of watching it on tv. Looks cheaply made like a tv movie, except I have seen more entertaining tv movies. Why Vince Vaugh's character is a psycho is… More

  • Emil K


    This film has propably the best performance from John Travolta in it. Harold Becker does very good job with this nice little thriller that has some hitchcockian touches in it. Sure, it is all pretty familiar stuff and there are some plot holes, but overall this is well made… More

  • Tim S


    Meh.

  • Lady D


    Surprisingly good, a little predictable in places but a pretty good Thriller. I do prefer Vince Vaughns more serious roles and think in this case he made a good bad guyl. Easy watching, enjoyable and entertaining.

  • Anthony L


    If this was a made for TV movie it would be quite good, it certainly has that feel about it but it?s not. It?s a made for cinema movie, so therefore is crap.

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