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Constant Chatter Shopping Center - Falling in Love
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List Price: $9.98
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Jane Kaczmarek, George Martin
Directed By: Ulu Grosbard
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792178804
Format: Anamorphic
ISBN: 0792178807
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-01-15
Running Time: 106
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1984-11-21
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Multiple Academy Award Winners Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep are together again for the first time since The Deer Hunter. In Falling In Love they play Frank Raftis and Molly Gilmore, two everyday people who meet first by chance, and later by choice. There's just one thing standing between Frank and Molly's intense, newfound love-both are already married. It's a genuine modern dilemma, and De Niro, Streep and a fine supporting cast bring the story to life with flair and sensitivity.
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Summary: De Niro's "feminine" side
Comment: I know Bobby's done a lot of great work...but wouldn't you like to see the softer side??? Well, this will reveal it along with yet another notable performance by Streep. Give yourself a treat and get this.
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Summary: more movies like this, PLEASE.
Comment: bums me out they don't make good old fashioned drama/romance anymore, just "wacky" romantic comedies. okay, 40 year old virgin is funny, but PLEASE, is it so hard for hollywood to give us a dramatic romance every now and then? Please!
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Summary: Odd Little Film with Interesting Flaws
Comment: I ordered "Falling in Love" several months ago because of the very fine review by Ed Uyeshima, which I recommend (its one of the more "helpful" reviews below). Most of my reviewing recently has been for "Vine Program" books. Because of my increased reading, it took me a while to get around to watching the film. Ed's review is more complete and better than mine. The only reason I'm writing today is to mention a few additional points which contribute to the value of this odd little film.
First, I wondered about the level of improvisation which occured between Streep and De Niro during their most important scenes. The acting is extraordinary and goes well beyond what could possibly be contained in a screenplay or in the best direction. If you want to see a dozen or so very high quality scenes, you should see this film, watch carefully, and enjoy what these two can do together. Pay attention to their eye contact (or lack thereof), their timing, and how they both portray a variety of anxiety-ridden situations.
Second, because the director did such a nice job with pace and reality, many reviewers were troubled by the apparent disconnection between the scenes of love and affection (after all, the title is "Falling in Love"), and the very accurately portrayed anxiety, guilt, hurt, and self serving behavior. This I think is why the movie was interesting to me. Before someone becomes unfaithul, they have to weigh a thousand times the consequences of deciding (in or out) of fidelity - to their spouse, their children, their friends, and to their personal history of everything which came after they started their lives with the spouse.
I could easily imagine Meryl Streep wanting to leave her husband. He seemed very creepy to me with his odd, stiff, and insensitive behavior. And how about that ugy 70's beard? Having unsuccessfully dealt with the loss of a baby made the disfunction of this childless marriage seem realistic.
However, the portrayal of De Niro's spouse by Jane Kaczmarek seemed so genuine and decent, that it was difficult to imagine De Niro cheating on her emotionally or physically. Either way, she still slapped him, and he deserved it. "Falling in Love" wants you to imagine these star-crossed "lovers" as wonderful people who are just in bad relationships. But by the end of the movie, its impossible to associate many decent qualities to either person, particularly the De Niro character. What about his kids?
Finally, Meryl Streep is literally gorgeous in this role. I suppose this is why many men cheat, and it makes his poor behavior more believable. So they go far enough into the "affair" to successfully destroy their existing relationships, but apparently let the resulting discomfort prevent moving into this new relationship. Then by chance (the same way they met), they meet again and presumably follow through, now that the past relationships have been cleansed.
So, as many reviewers raved about the genuine love and affection portrayed throughout this movie, there was also plenty of the selfish as well, so that by the time it ended I felt relieved to be me back in my own life, and not one of these two people.
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Summary: Glorifies Infidelity
Comment: I can't believe that so many reviewers are calling a film that glorifiies adultry "beautiful." It's far from beautiful! It's really a sad tale about two selfish people who have no regard for their spouses or the commitments they made. It does not show the ugliness, pain, and destruction of having an emotional or sexual affair.
And you have to wonder why these two, who appear to be happy in their relationships at the start of the film, decide to have an affair anyway. This film never delves into that or into what hole these people have in them that made them cross a moral line.
I wish I could say that the ending is an improvement, but it also has no redeeming qualities and is unbelievable. Affairs never result in happy endings.
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Summary: Beautiful movie
Comment: seeing this movie over and over again makes me fall in love with the actors over and over again
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