``Falling in Love,'' a captivating collaboration between Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep that transports audiences to dangerous love and New York.

The script captures the emotions that come and go.

Frank has a calm, trustworthy wife and two growing boys. At work, his coworker Ed (Harvey Keitel), who is still stuck in a broken marriage and has not fixed it, begins to subtly influence Frank after he meets Molly. Meanwhile, Molly's marriage to her doctor husband is not going well, and her friend, the career woman Isabel (Dianne Wiest), is also in a broken marriage and enjoying free-spirited relationships with younger men.

The placement of the characters, who make you feel danger whether you like it or not, is exquisite. And the relationship between Frank and Molly, which Heat up gradually at first due to their chance encounter and reunion, seems to be flaring up with momentum, but then suddenly, he wakes up to his senses and returns to normal, and then he heats up even more in reaction. This way of varying the pace is also a clever part of the script, which makes the audience lean forward without even realizing it.

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Dorothy Tennov, an American psychologist who has written many books on the psychology of love, praised "Falling in Love" for its "sensitive portrayal of the situation in which men and women in love fall into addiction." Christopher, who wrote the screenplay, also commented, "Everyone thinks that falling in love is a wonderful thing, but at the same time, we need to know that it can sometimes be a destructive act."

The film's appeal lies in the fact that, literally, it depicts the process by which a man and a woman in love become possessed and swept away by romantic feelings, which eventually threaten to ruin both of their lives, accurately to the very end, without any easy omissions or conceptual descriptions.

De Niro wanted Streep to play his partner.