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1987 Certificate 18
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While his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter are out of town, successful attorney Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) has a one-night stand with Alex Forrest (Glenn Close), the publishing executive he has just met. He has no idea what he's getting into. Immediately after the encounter, Dan wants to put the experience behind him, but .. Read more

Starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Fred Gwynne
Director Adrian Lyne
Genres Drama

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Fatal Attraction

While his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter are out of town, successful attorney Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) has a one-night stand with Alex Forrest (Glenn Close), the publishing executive he has just met. He has no idea what he's getting into. Immediately after the encounter, Dan wants to put the experience behind him, but Alex refuses to let go of their relationship. Driven to madness by his rejection, she turns to violently harassing both Dan and his family. This terrifying morality play, which takes the consequences of infidelity to new heights of horror, became one of 1987's biggest box-office successes.

Starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Fred Gwynne, Stuart Pankin, Ellen Foley
Director Adrian Lyne
Studio PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 54 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Collections 100 Top Thrillers
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Dubbed German
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish
Released DVD: 02 Sep 2002
Production year: 1987
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (6) of Fatal Attraction

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    This is the movie that, among other things, helped create a new genre: the psychotic female from hell (see Basic Instinct, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and The Crush for prime examples). Glenn Close plays the obsessed woman driven to extreme lengths when she discovers that Michael Douglas is not going to leave his wife (Anne Archer) for her. Close is excellent in a thankless role, while Douglas established himself as the troubled icon of middle-class America, the ordinary man who would later find himself getting out of his depth in the likes of Falling Down and Disclosure. The movie's message (it's all right to have an affair as long as it's not with a nutcase) is more than a little dubious, but there is no denying its slick power and director Adrian Lyne milks the tension for all it's worth. However, he had to reshoot the movie's climax after test audiences gave the thumbs down to his first ending.

    • Radio Times
  • "...The screws are tightened expertly in this suspenseful meller....Glenn Close throws herself into the physical abandon of the early reels with surprising relish, and becomes genuinely frightening..."

    • Variety
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  • 17 out of 22 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    CRAP

    VERY RUBBISH HATE IT

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Cracking film

    Fatal Attraction is one of those films that everyone you know has seen, and when you class someone as a 'bunny boiler' you know exactly what they mean, lol.

    I however had never seen it.

    Watched it last night and thought it was a very good film, Glenn Close played a superb part, no wonder they picked her to play Cruella De Ville she is truly scary!

    I can understand why it is a classic, I was a bit disappointed with the ending, like must good thrillers it just sort of ....well ended.

    Worth a watch if you have never seen it before and worth a second watch if you have.

    Glenn Close truly is a woman scorned!

    PS: Did anyone else go through the whole film thinking that Michael Douglas's child was a boy? I did! lol

      • SuzieBaby from Kent
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    Fatal Attraction

    Close was pregnant when she shot violent Fatal Attraction death

    • 06 Mar 2009

    Glenn Close struggles to watch her character's violent death in 1987 movie FATAL ATTRACTION - because she didn't realise she was pregnant when she shot the chilling scene. Close was called back to the set six months after the film had wrapped, because director Adrian Lyne was unhappy with the ending - in which the actress' psychotic character committed suicide. Instead she was called upon to fight with co-stars Anne Archer and Michael Douglas, before her character Alex Forrest was shot dead.... Read more

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