Falling in Love

United States

1984

106 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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CAST Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Jane Kaczmarek, Dianne Wiest, George Martin, David Clennon, Victor Argo, Jesse Bradford

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.

Director

Ulu Grosbard

Ulu Grosbard (born 9 January 1929) is a Belgian-born, naturalized American theatre and film director and film producer.

Born in Antwerp, Grosbard emigrated to Havana with his family in 1942. In 1948, they moved to the United States, where he earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Chicago. He studied then at the Yale School of Drama for one year before joining the United States Army, and he became a naturalized citizen in 1954.

Grosbard gravitated towards theatre when he relocated to New York City in the early 1960s. After directing The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker off-Broadway, he earned his first Broadway credit with The Subject Was Roses, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 1964. That same year he won the Obie Award for Best Direction and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for an off-Broadway revival of the Arthur Miller play A View from the Bridge, for which Dustin… read more