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Falling in Love

Robert De Niro (Actor), Meryl Streep (Actor), Ulu Grosbard (Director) Rated:

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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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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.53 inches; 4 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Ulu Grosbard
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 46 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ January 15, 2002
Actors ‏ : ‎ Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Jane Kaczmarek, George Martin
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English, French
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Paramount
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005S6K6
Writers ‏ : ‎ Michael Cristofer
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #51,553 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,927 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #8,989 in Drama DVDs

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sandra

Sweet film. Mostly the adults were interested

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 19, 2022

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Bob Dog

Odd Little Film with Interesting Flaws

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2008

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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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Sasha Nealand

soo 80's

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2022

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cool nostalgia movie for those of use from that era

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Hope to Help

Favorite.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 31, 2022

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Just one of my favorite movies, so I had to purchase it. Love watching it around Christmas time. So sweet.

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Chicagogirl

I fell in love with this movie!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 11, 2022

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Loved, loved, loved the on screen chemistry between a young looking Meryl Streep and Robert DeNiro. Story felt relatable, sweet, touching and in the end, satisfying. Would recommend to watch this with your sweetheart or if you believe in finding your person. Miracles do happen!

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Heather

Important things to know before watching this movie.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 20, 2015

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1. This a movie made in the early 80's when studios still made adult dramas. There's nothing big about this movie. Nothing. It's small and subtle. It has it's melodramatic moments (like any film in the romance genre), but largely this is a movie that feels more grounded in contemporary reality. This is one of the movie's many strengths(IMHO)
2. The movie is inspired in many ways by David Lean's classic Brief Encounters. If you don't know about Brief Encounters, Google it before or after you watch this movie It's a movie from a different time, but incredible if you end up liking this movie and want to take a step back further into romantic film history.
3. This is one of the few times where both DeNiro and Streep get to play normal everyday people with everyday lives. There's no accents, gaining or losing weight, wigs, etc. This is no small thing for actors who were both known for transformative performances even before this movie was made.
4. Ulu Grosbard, the film's director, was well known and respected when he made this movie. He had directed Dustin Hoffman in classics like Straight Time and DeNiro in the period drama True Confessions before this movie was made. Translated: This wasn't some throw away movie for either of these actors.
3. IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS IS A MOVIE ABOUT MARRIED PEOPLE CONTEMPLATING INFIDELITY. Do not watch this movie if you are judgmental of people who choose to cheat on their spouses. Many of the bad reviews that I've seen are from people who call the characters selfish and judge them for their decisions. In fairness, Amazon's synopsis is horribly written and you could miss the fact that this a movie about married people falling in love with another person.

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SUSPENSEFUL and ROMANTIC

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2020

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DROPPED THIS MOVIE TO 4 STARS DUE TO THE MOST DREADFUL PARTS OF THE MOVIE:
1. CONSTANT CAMERA ANGLES OF THE FRONT OF THE TRAIN HEADED TOWARD THE AUDIENCE
2. STREEP'S WARDROBE.

THE CAMERA LOVES STREEP & De NIRO, THEY ARE ONSCREEN MAGIC.

I DISAGREE WITH ANOTHER REVIEWER THAT DE NIRO CHARACTER COULD HAVE PUT HIS ENERGY INTO RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS WIFE. THE HEART WANTS WHAT IT WANTS, AND SOMETIMES A MARRIAGE IS JUST A BOX CHECK, THERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU CANNOT FAKE. I THINK THERE WAS A STRONGER CONNECTION BETWEEN STREEP & DE NIRO CHARACTERS.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON FINDS LOVE AFTER THEY ARE MARRIED. MORE THAN ONCE DID I HOLD MY BREATH AND WONDER...
DO THESE 2 PEOPLE ACT ON THEIR FEELINGS OR NOT?
IS IT ENOUGH TO JUST WALK AWAY?
CAN THEY WALK AWAY FOREVER?
WHAT COULD BRING THEM BACK TOGETHER...
A CAR CRASH?

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Will Mac

Beautiful story - much better than many modern equivalents

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 2, 2019

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Two excellent actors and a beautiful, and moving, story make this a very joyfully engaging film. The 80's are hardly our favourite era (all those shoulder pads and big hair!) but this is a meaningful tale, more appealing to us than many of the modern day equivalents which seem to be either aggressive / full of swearing or the opposite i.e. cloying and syrupy. Being the 80's, however, some of the scenes (particularly the first Christmas one) and the theme music both now seem somewhat 'cheesy' but it's a wonderful story.

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Sarah

falling in love - 1984 - dvd

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 28, 2012

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I re-ordered this film as I accidently broke the previous DVD. I love the film so much that I just had to get another! Its such a feelgood film and I often find myself watching it again and again because it leaves me with such a warm glow. What I also love about it is the fact that it is was made in the early 80's, a simpler time, and yet not so long ago that we cannot idenitfy with the characters, far from it. There are no mobile phones - people simply picked up the phone when they wanted to speak to someone and actually met each other, not bombard each other with boring and meaningless texts! The music all throughout the film is beautifully done, very moving. The main theme tune is apparently called Mountain Dance, which is very bubbly, bouncy and happy, again leaving you with that feelgood feeling. The main characters, Molly and Frank, are just made for each other. They are such kind, gentle characters, who quite literally cannot help but fall in love. The other actors and actresses involved also take fantastic parts. This is a film which I do not believe will ever date. I challenge any woman not to watch it and not be captivated by it.

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C. A. I hope Betron have scrapped their dodgy silver wires for health &safety reasons. Thank you.

Very special movie

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 30, 2022

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Nothing to dislike. Rook a while ro arrive as it came from the Netherlands. The movie came out in 1984/5 but is timeless to me.
Had never seen it before. Robert de Niro & Meryl Streep are magical together. A slow burning delight. to watch.

Nara Kronfli

gift for my mother

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 23, 2013

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For years my mother has described a film she saw many years ago with my father but could never remember it, only that it was with de Niro and Streep and the couple meet on the train. So I was delighted to find this. Some may find this dated but the essence is a romantic film which also shows the torn emotions of those no longer in love with their husband or wife, yet strongly and unexpectedly attracted and emotionally connected to someone they met by chance and the choice to follow their heart and start again.
I have no astounding feedback other than it was a gift which was greatly appreciated and I had the chance to watch it and it made a change from strong violence and /or sex scenes and focussed more on emotions.

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Helen

One of my favourites

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 28, 2012

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I love Meryl Streep and this is the film which did it for me.The first time I saw it I hated Robert Deniro's performance....over the years he has grown on me.....just don't think he is good enough for Meryl.
Still think the guy playing her husband is miscaste......he looks like a maniac....you don't have any empathy with him at all!
I adore Brief Encounter which this is a nod to.....in it you love the husband but still have sympathy with the heroine and her passion.
When I was in New York this year I went to Grand Central station to see where they met.
Another of my cosy afternoon films.

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