Fatal Attraction

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Fatal Attraction

R

1987

1h 59m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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For Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas), life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth (Anne Archer), and has a loving daughter. But, after a casual fling with a sultry book editor named Alex (Glenn Close), everything changes. Jilted by Dan, Alex becomes unstable, her behavior escalating from aggressive pursuit to obsessive stalking. Dan realizes that his main problem is not hiding his affair, but rather saving himself and his family.

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Critics Consensus

A potboiler in the finest sense, Fatal Attraction is a sultry, juicy thriller that's hard to look away from once it gets going.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

09/15/2023

This is a horror film based on the sanctity of the family -- the dream family. It enforces conventional morality (in the era of AIDS) by piling on paranoiac fear. The family that kills together stays together, and the audience is hyped up.

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Adam Nayman

The Ringer

05/05/2023

It’s a fine line between pathos and ridiculousness, and Close walks it like a velvet tightrope.

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Jay Scott

Globe and Mail

12/07/2022

Fatal Attraction evolves toward the cheaply manipulative and silly.

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Savina Petkova

A Good Movie To Watch

11/24/2023

77/100

Seen from a slightly removed perspective, the film becomes a stylized variation on conservative AIDS panic and a provocation to conservative heteronormativity. It has to be said that not all of the film has aged well.

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Q.V. Hough

Vague Visages

06/23/2023

However lethal Alex may be, Lyne introduces notes of empathy in an ingenious way...

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

05/04/2023

6/10

As a thriller it has a start that rises with the presence of Glenn Close, but its degree of intrigue ends up being cut off easily when it interrogates guilt, obsession and the ethical corollaries of adultery in a sanitized zone. [Full review in Spanish]

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Tim M

@tgmacman Dec 17

Giving gusto to the erotic thriller, Fatal Attraction suckers the audience in with measured characterizations and narrative escalation.

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Forrest M

Dec 2

"Fatal Attraction" is a good movie that seeks to warn men of the ill effects of adultery particularly men who wants to sleep around. Also, it presents the fact that one-night stands can present traumas in more unexpected ways particularly the peace within the family.

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Sep 24

What an absolute dogshit of a boring movie. Douglas's wife was actually more attractive that the other lady. She was so chopped. And, the kid looked more like a boy than a girl. Michael Douglas always messing around with women, lol...

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thiago s

@Thiagostone Sep 22

Filme mais ou menos, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são mais ou menos, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom

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Blu B

Jul 25

A Romance Thriller Classic. It's slow....very very slow and takes it's time. The music isn't bad but it's very noticeable at times how this barely uses any score at all and is slightly dry. It's also a fairly quiet film also with not that much dialouge beyond the inital meeting of Douglas & Close who are good together. Honestly besides the score everything else is pretty solid about it. The film is peaks and valleys the entire time and VERY slowly it gets a little more intense. Second half it starts to get really twisted and you can feel the turning of the screw more and more. It all builds up to the last 10 minutes which is really good and the best part. It's a film that does require patience but it does have a great payoff. Anyone who is a fan of romances, drama/thrillers, or is a fan of any actors in this, or the director should check this out. It doesn't necessarily break new ground but it does the basics of the stalker/romance genre well.

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useyour I

Jul 17

Fatal Attraction has an inescapable pull to it; it's suffocatingly exciting.

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Synopsis

For Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas), life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth (Anne Archer), and has a loving daughter. But, after a casual fling with a sultry book editor named Alex (Glenn Close), everything changes. Jilted by Dan, Alex becomes unstable, her behavior escalating from aggressive pursuit to obsessive stalking. Dan realizes that his main problem is not hiding his affair, but rather saving himself and his family.

Director: Adrian Lyne
Producer: Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
Screenwriter: James Dearden, Nicholas Meyer
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 11, 1987, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 6, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $154.0M
Runtime: 1h 59m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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