Writer:
Lewis Colick
Director:
Harold Becker
Feature
length: 89 minutes
Extras:
Commentary By Director Harold Becker, Deleted Scenes With Director’s
Commentary, Storyboards, and Theatrical Trailer
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 5.1 and English and French Dolby Surround 2.0
Subtitles:
English Captions and Closed Captions
Packaging:
Amaray Keep Case
Chapter
Stops: 15
Sound:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and Stereo Surround Sound
Year
of Theatrical Release: 2001/DVD Release: 2002
Theatrical
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Home
Video Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment
MPAA
Rating: PG-13
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
John
Travolta is a father whose troubled son witnesses his stepfather (Vince Vaughn)
murder an associate from his shady past. Travolta is the only one who believes
his son and the only one who can protect him and his estranged ex-wife.
“Domestic Disturbance” is a passable thriller. Entertaining, but not
outstanding. Paramount Home Entertainment presents “Domestic Disturbance”
with a nice anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) aspect ratio and the presentation is
free of any blemishes and compression grain. A good English Dolby Digital 5.1
Surround Soundtrack is provided along with English and French Language Stereo
Surround Soundtracks and English Captions and Closed Captions encoded on to the
dual layered DVD.
Director
Harold Becker provides an articulate and screen specific feature length audio
commentary track and also provides an optional audio commentary complete with an
audio introduction to 6-deleted scenes. The scenes are presented in a
letterboxed (2.35:1) aspect ratio with English Stereo Sound. The picture quality
is free of imperfections. The majority of the scenes are less than a minute in
length while the final two deleted scenes run between one and two-minutes. The
deleted scenes can only viewed individually, but since they are so short, it is
not chore to switch between them.
Storyboards
for the “Murder Sequence” and “Fire Sequence” along with a widescreen
(1.85:1) theatrical trailer complete with English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Sound wrap up the extra features on the DVD.
The
main menu is animated while the subsequent menus are standard interactive still
frames that are easy to navigate. “Domestic Disturbance” will debut on DVD-Video
from Paramount Home Entertainment on Tuesday, April 16, 2002.
©
Copyright 2002 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.