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Domestic Disturbance
2001

Director: Harold Becker
Cast: John Travolta, Teri Polo, Vince Vaughn, Matt O'Leary, Steve Buscemi

Since the police is clueless, a divorced dad takes the law into his own hands in order to protect his son and his ex-wife from her new husband who seems to have something to hide. A more intelligent film would have told a story of a man who must come to terms with the fact that another man is now raising his family. This, however, is not that film, but a thoroughly repulsive neoconservative thriller which won't let anything or anyone foul the sanctity of the nuclear family. Some ambiguity could have made it at least tolerable but, no, dad is the nicest guy in the world and stepdad is a sadistic one-note villain.