Rating: PG13
Genre:
Romance
Release Date: 08/05/2008
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 106 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
Falling in Love can be described as an urban American
Brief Encounter. Reteamed for the first time since
The Deer Hunter,
Robert De Niro and
Meryl Streep star as a married couple. Thing of it is, they're not married to each other. While Christmas shopping for their respective families, architect Frank Raftis (
DeNiro) and graphic artist Molly Gilmore (
Streep) "meet cute," their holiday packages becoming mixed up. What starts as a pleasant chance acquaintance blossoms into romance. Inevitably, however, both parties realize that what they're doing is wrong--a shade too late to save their marriages, as it turns out. The film ends with a bittersweet "one year later" coda. The natural charisma of its stars lends distinction to the otherwise so-so
Falling in Love.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide