Fatal Attraction (1987) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family. Director: a list of 48 titles created 03 May 2011 a list of 30 titles created 22 Jul 2011 a list of 24 titles created 17 Jul 2013 a list of 25 titles created 11 Dec 2014 a list of 23 titles created 8 months ago Search for " Fatal Attraction " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 16 nominations. See more awards » Videos A violent, suspended police detective investigates a brutal murder, in which a manipulative and seductive woman could be involved.

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See full summary » Director: Lewis Teague A woman advertising for a new roommate finds that something very strange is going on with the tenant who decides to move in. Director: Barbet Schroeder A woman gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated. Director: Adrian Lyne A borderline personality disordered defense worker frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them. Director: Joel Schumacher Edit Storyline Happily married New York lawyer Dan Callagher has an affair with his colleague Alex, and the two enjoy a love weekend while Dan's wife and kid are away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she will stop at nothing to have him for herself. Just how far will she go to get what she wants? Written by Sami Al-Taher <staher2000@yahoo.com> See All (230) » Taglines: On the other side of drinks, dinner and a one night stand, lies a terrifying love story.

See more » Genres: 18 September 1987 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Affairs of the Heart See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Glenn Close still has the knife she used in the movie hanging in her kitchen. See more » Goofs Alex's head tilts the opposite way when she tries to persuade Dan to not leave after he confronts her. See more » Quotes See more » Crazy Credits Barbara Harris is sometimes credited under the name Barbara Iley. In the final credits here, under 'Party Guests', she is credited under both names. See more » Connections Prelude No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 28 (uncredited) One Of The Most Memorable Movies Of The '80s 28 January 2007 | by ccthemovieman-1 (United States) – See all my reviews You don't hear much about this film anymore, but in its day, this was the most-talked about movie of the year. It was a 'favorite topic of conversation about the office water cooler' for a number of weeks. At the time, it was a shocker. Nowaways.....who knows?

As we become more and more desensitized to violence, sex and profanity, it takes a lot more to shock us. Still, this movie had memorable moments that have stayed with us who first saw it at the theater 20 years ago. Most of those memorable scenes, if not all of them, involve Glenn Close's character, "Alex Forrest." Man, this is a woman who would not be denied what she wanted: in this case, married man Michael Douglas. No sense going into all the details. Everyone knows them by now, anyway. Looking back, I think the film was a good lesson for men (or women) thinking about cheating on their spouses and assuming nothing bad will happen as a result. Men may commit more crimes, but that old adage about a "woman scorned" certainly is demonstrated here in spades! Douglas' character, "Dan Gallagher," certainly can attest to that, but he is anything but a sympathetic character. Both actors do a superb job in here, but kudos also to the rest of the Gallagher family, played by Anne Archer (wife "Beth") and Ellen Hamilton Latzen (daughter "Ellen.") Also, the cinematography shouldn't be overlooked.

The widescreen DVD certainly brought out how nicely this film was shot and directed. This two-hour film keeps your attention all the way. The only thing I would change is the language, toning it down a bit. Otherwise, it's a classic thriller and one of the most famous films in the '80s. 45 of 52 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Fatal Attraction (7/8) Movie CLIP - Boiled Bunny (1987) HD - YouTube Fatal Attraction (7/8) Movie CLIP - Boiled Bunny (1987) HD Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Oct 9, 2011 Fatal Attraction movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: Beth (Anne Archer) comes home to find an unpleasant surprise on the stove.

FILM DESCRIPTION: "Fatal attraction" has become a household term for love turned to murderous obsession, thanks to the success of Adrian Lyne's 1987 movie. Dan (Michael Douglas) is a family man whose one-night affair with Alex (Glenn Close) turns into a nightmare when she insists on continuing the relationship, claiming to be carrying his baby. Alex systematically terrorizes Dan, even temporarily kidnapping his daughter, in her attempts to win back his affection. Douglas' besieged family man guiltily tries to preserve his marriage and family from the consequences of his own indiscretion. Close's performance as the love-struck psycho-siren remains her signature role: She conveys the buried feminist message of the film in her challenge to Dan to take responsibility for his sexual behavior.

Though many critics acknowlegded the film's striking similarities to Clint Eastwood's 1971 film Play Misty for Me, Fatal Attraction spawned numerous other movies about middle-class families besieged by a lone psychotic intent on infiltrating and destroying the fabric of the family unit, including The Stepfather (1987), Pacific Heights (1990), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), and Fear (1996). CREDITS: Cast: Michael Douglas, Anne Archer, Ellen Hamilton Latzen Director: Adrian Lyne Producers: Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing Screenwriter: James Dearden WHO ARE WE? The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Made by movie fans, for movie fans.

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MOVIE CHANNELS: Fatal Attraction — Out of the FOG / Ed Harrigan Fatal Attraction is a 1987 Movie Thriller starring Glenn Close & Michael Douglas about Dan Gallagher, a New York Lawyer (played by Michael Douglas) who is stalked by Alex Forrest (played by Glenn Close) with whom he has had an affair. The story portrays Alex's increasingly unstable behavior as a result of having Borderline Personality Disorder and feeling abandoned by Dan. When Dan tries to end the affair with Alex, she attempts suicide, stalks him and his family, vandalizes his his car, abducts one of his children and even kills the family pet. The original script for "Fatal Attraction" portrayed Alex committing suicide, which would have been far more consistent with Alex's BPD character, but after screen testing the original ending, the producers gave in to commercial pressure to change the conclusion of the movie to a more crowd-pleasing "hollywood shoot-out" kind of ending.

Nevertheless, "Fatal Attraction" provided one of the most striking and convincing portrayals of a person with borderline personality disorder - including Fear of Abandonment , Stalking , Child Abduction, Destruction of Property and Suicidal Ideation. Bunny Boiling is a reference to an iconic scene in the movie "Fatal Attraction" in which the main character Alex, who suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder, kills the family's pet rabbit and boils it on the stove. Bunny Boiling has become a popular reference to how people sometimes exhibit their rage by behaving destructively towards symbolic, important or treasured possessions or representations of those whom they wish to hurt, control or intimidate. "Fatal Attraction" was nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actress (Glenn Close). You can watch the movie trailer here : "Fatal Attraction" 1987 Paramount Trailer Fatal Attraction: My sympathy for the bunny-boiler - Telegraph Theatre Fatal Attraction: My sympathy for the bunny-boiler Fatal Attraction writer James Dearden is bringing the story to the West End, with a very different ending.

Glenn Close and Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction Photo: Rex Features By Anita Singh , Arts and Entertainment Editor 6:30AM GMT 21 Mar 2014 Follow When Fatal Attraction opened in cinemas in 1987, Glenn Close’s portrayal of a spurned woman added the term “bunny-boiler” to the Oxford English Dictionary. Close played Alex Forrest, a career woman who turns psychopathic stalker after a one-night stand with a married businessman who refuses to leave his family. Fatal Attraction became the highest grossing film of 1987. Yet Close and the film's scriptwriter, James Dearden, hated the ending of the film, in in which Alex is shot dead by her lover’s wife. Dearden had originally written something very different but US test audiences demanded a happy ending in which Alex was killed off and Dan Gallagher, played by Michael Douglas, was reunited with his wife. The studio ordered a rewrite. Twenty-seven years on, Dearden is staging a new version of the story in the West End, with a different ending and a perspective that gives Alex "a fair shake of the dice". Natascha McElhone plays Alex, with Mark Bazeley as Dan.

Kristin Davis plays Dan’s saintly wife, Beth. Related Articles 20 Mar 2014 It opens at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on Tuesday, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn. When Dearden wrote Fatal Attraction, he saw Alex as a lonely woman driven to extremes by her yearning for love. Studio executives had other ideas. "They screened it for test audiences. The single biggest cheer the film got in previews was when Dan's wife said the line, 'This is Beth Gallagher. If you ever come near my family again, I'll kill you.' That literally got whooping cheers. And that's what prompted the analyst who conducted the focus groups to say, 'You have to kill Alex Forrest, and it has to be the wife that does it’," Dearden said. “Because it was a thriller and because it was America, where the family is sacrosanct, they wanted the family saved and a happy ending. “That could only really be accomplished by turning Alex Forrest into a monster who deserved her fate. The logic behind Beth doing the deed was that she was the only one who had clean hands. Dan was already damned for his transgression so could never be unambiguously the hero.

Therefore it fell to the wife. "It became this new ending where Glenn arrives in the house completely wacko and, at the end, comes out of the bath like a monster from the deep. "It was literally the biggest horror film cliché ever - just when you think they're dead, the hand reaches out and they get blown away and everyone trundles out happy they got their money's worth. "Even when we had the ending changed, there was a discussion at one point that maybe we should put the old ending on for Europe because they're slightly more capable of accepting it. But wherever they tested it - in Britain, anywhere in the world - they always wanted the 'blow her away' ending." The film was highly controversial in its day. "Feminism was still a relatively new concept. Feminists seized upon the characterisation of Alex as suggesting that woman had to choose between a man or a career, that single career women were a sad species better off dead. That was patently absurd. "And certainly nothing could have been further from Glenn's mind.

She was really upset by that reaction because she thought she had created this very rounded character who obviously goes totally crazy and does terrible things - one can't honestly say it's okay to go and boil a kid's pet bunny - but we can also relate to being driven to desperation by being ignored by the object of your love." Close hated the new ending and was in tears when told she had to do it. The actress said last year that the negative portrayal of her character fed the stigma around mental illness. Dearden is reluctant to grumble too much about the ending because the film had been such a commercial success, grossing £350 million worldwide. But he said: "From an artistic and creative point of view I always felt ambivalent, to put it mildly. I couldn't fully endorse the movie's success because I wrote it under duress and hated the ending. 'Adrian [Lyne, the director] shot it brilliantly and it worked on a bums-on-seats level.

But for me it didn't give Alex a fair shake of the dice, in the sense that by the end of the movie you weren't thinking, 'Well, actually, hold on a minute, she does have a point of view.'" The final scenes of the stage version will be radically diffrent. "There is no monster from the deep. The ending is still quite dark. I hope that people are sufficiently intrigued by their memories of the movie to want to see it on stage." At the time of its release, many saw the film as an allegory about Aids. But Dearden insisted: "Nothing could have been further from my mind. I wrote this first as a short film in 1979 and though there had been a few cases of Aids then, I'd certainly never heard of it." And has Close forgiven him for the film's ending? "Probably not. But Glenn's fine.

I don't think anybody associated with the movie suffered professionally - ironically, least of all her." Fatal Attraction Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 71 out of 84 people found the following review useful: Justifiably one of the most talked-about movies ever Author: moviefan08 (moviefan08@yahoo.com) 7 December 2003 There are a handful of movies out there that have become so ingrained in our collective dialogue as an American society, it's practically a crime to have not seen them. If you haven't experienced the joy of Casablanca, you probably haven't seen from where "Here's looking at you, kid" originally came. Ever heard someone make jokes about quarter pounders with cheese in France? That's Pulp Fiction, ladies and gentlemen. Ever have anyone make you an "offer you can't refure?" Well, that person's seen The Godfather. Ever had a former one-night stand try to inflict long-running physical and psychological pain on you and your family? Err...probably not, but if you haven't seen 1987's Fatal Attraction, you're missing out on one of the biggest pop-culture phenomenons of recent decades.

Because of Swimfan and other subpar (but, in Swimfan's case, guiltily entertaining) efforts of tribute and homage, the plot of Fatal Attraction (and maybe even its ending) is obvious before the movie even starts. Adrian Lyne's (last year's magnificent Unfaithful) film is about Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas), a New York lawyer with an attractive wife (Anne Archer) and little girl who takes a walk on the wild side one weekend and has a passionate liason with an originally casual acquaintance, Alex Forrest (Glenn Close). Dan wants it all to be over right afterwards, but Alex doesn't let him cut it off that quickly. Dan begins being harrassed by Alex in mounting forms of revenge that eventually reach his family - and become deadly (cheesy writing, huh?). Alex's continual acts of vengeance aren't easy to fight back against, though, for Dan must try to keep his secret from his wife and deal with the moral and legal implications that become increasingly complicated. If it sounds like a 'typical' movie of that sort, it is. Why? Because it was the prototype for all the rest of them to come.

One can't really dock the movie for being the typical "affair goes dead wrong" movie, because it was the first one of its kind that truly perfected the formula. It'd be like saying Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is WAAAAY too much like 10 Things I Hate About You. The thing is, Fatal Attraction really defied the expectations that I had set for it. The movie starts out kind of like Lyne began last year's Unfaithful - happy family together, and the parents getting ready to go out to a soiree. At that evening's party, Dan, while away from his wife, runs into Alex for the first time, and the sparks begin to fly. Now, the movie's title kind of gives away the fact that the woman is going to go completely nuts on him later, but James Dearden's screenplay, and Glenn Close's careful rendering of her character makes Alex a decent person to begin with. I was immediately impressed that Alex isn't some creepy, eccentric vixen that looks like bad news to begin with. The inevitable begins, and Dan's wife and child must go away for the weekend.

Alex turns up at a meeting at Dan's law firm, and shortly thereafter the affair begins. Right before they engage in some of the most protracted and unintentionally funny sex in film history, Lyne gives us an exquisite little scene in a restaurant between Dan and Alex. This is one of the crucial scenes in the film, for it sets the tone for the rest of the movie. Unlike Unfaithful, the two don't spend an increasingly longer amount of time with each other and then hastily have sex. Their dialogue right before their first tryst is direct. Like consenting adults, they simply agree that they're going to do it. No dancing around his apartment to sexy jazz music, no braille cookbook seduction. They simply sign a verbal agreement and then go at it on the kitchen sink, complete with running water and Douglas's odd obsession with having Close's breast in his mouth. The rest of their weekend consists of sex, more sex, and even more sex, with the obligatory 'funny scene where they almost get caught doing it in public.' The movie really takes off on it's nail-biting, visceral course when Dan decides he must leave. The woman goes nuts, and that's an understatement. Calls and unexpected visits occur.

Alex calls the house, but just stays silent when Dan's wife answers. Family pets are murdered. The tension mounts unbearably. The whole section of the film leading up to its exciting conclusion really makes an amazing impact. I had a huge list of expectations for what certain things would happen, but most of them didn't. This may be the prototypical erotic revenge thriller, but it certainly jumps over some of its own limitations. Anne Archer, Dan's wife, is an interestingly written character, for she is unsuspecting of it all until, well, until Dan must break down and confess. There is no bra discovered that isn't hers, no story that doesn't check out with someone else, no 'why have you been so distant since that one weekend when I left you completely alone?' All of the tension in the movie lies with what Alex will do next to remind Dan that he can't just let her go. The movie throws out another convention by actually letting Alex meet Dan and his wife in an incredibly uncomfortable scene where Alex slyly obtains their phone number after it has been changed. Fatal Attraction, along with its incredible building suspense, becomes less and less of the cookie-cutter genre film that it's been categorized as.

This is in part thanks to amazing work by Close. As the movie's 'villain,' she radiates a dangerous sexuality and inital vulnerability that makes a great combination. Once she goes apes**t on Dan, she's simply a blast to watch. In that 'please let me never cross paths with a woman like her' sense, of course. I love Fatal Attraction for much of the same reason that I loved Unfaithful. Hidden carefully beneath the movie's "thriller" facade is actually an excellent morality fable. This is hinted at when Alex is introduced as a likeable, sympathetic character, but fully fleshed-out once Dan must go back to his family. Sure, the woman's a freak, but Dan was the one that had the affair with her, so he's somewhat responsible. He told her that things would have to end, but no affair can just be extinguished like that. When he nicely tells her that it can't continue, I actually kind of felt bad for Alex. Sex has an emotional attachment to it that Dan tried to put behind him, but Alex couldn't.

There is a crucial plot twist introduced into the film nearly halfway through that I won't reveal here, but it adds most importantly to the whole idea of Dan's moral quandry. At times, I was torn. For a while, Alex is simply a fling that's hanging on and one actually feels sympathy for her somewhat. Sure, it's all dispelled by the end of the film, but for a while the movie really turns the preconceived notions of its characters upside-down. Dan is trying to get back to his family, but isn't he somewhat of a creep for screwing around in the first place? That's the rocky terrain of infidelity, and Lyne's film explores it with an underlying expertise that can be seen through all the knife-weilding and bunny-boiling. The movie has a handful of truly exciting, somewhat violent scenes that add an extra punch to its escalating progress. At one point, Dan breaks into Alex's apartment and has a violent encounter with her as he tells her to quit messing with his family. Alex enacts schemes of such raw cruelty, it's easy to understand why Dan is scared to death of her.

Nothing compares to the movie's violent, bloody finale that has become a movie thriller landmark (one word, guys: catfight). It's truly one of the most well-done and exciting action scenes in film, and it's a bravura closer to a movie that deserves nothing less. Sure, it may not do anything creative to tie up the ends of the movie, but I'm glad Lyne used such an explosive scene. On the Special Edition DVD, an alternate ending can be viewed, and I was disappointed - it may be more creative and mean more in the context of the film (and may be technically better), but I'll stick with punches, guns, and knives for my revenge flick finales any day. Fatal Attraction is and always will be one of the most exciting, nail-bitingly intense, and entertaining movies of all time. It got six Academy Award nominations in 1987, including nods to Glenn Close and Anne Archer AND Best Picture. That's a testament to how much of a phenomenon it was then, but the fact that it stands up so well even today says so much more. GRADE: A- Was the above review useful to you?

45 out of 51 people found the following review useful: Close Call For Douglas 21 February 2006 *** This review may contain spoilers *** I've re-watched it on DVD and it's still an amazing, unforgettable nightmare film, spawning countless imitators and a multitude of discussion. Glenn Close will forever be identified as the unhinged colleague of married with child Michael Douglas who have a brief fling that Douglas lives to regret. Close should have won the Academy Award for her electrifying portrayal of an attractive, seemingly ground woman who eventually lashes out in acid-spewing, bunny-boiling, knife-wielding hysteria. Douglas is equally effective, beautifully conveying increasing angst and guilt. The subject was done before in at least "Possessed" (1947) and "Play Misty For Me" (1971), but not quite as effective and engrossing as this well-directed thriller. I definitely prefer the panic-stricken theatrical ending to the overly low-key and unexciting original cut. See it with a significant other! Was the above review useful to you?

45 out of 52 people found the following review useful: One Of The Most Memorable Movies Of The '80s from United States 28 January 2007 You don't hear much about this film anymore, but in its day, this was the most-talked about movie of the year. It was a 'favorite topic of conversation about the office water cooler' for a number of weeks. At the time, it was a shocker. Nowaways.....who knows? As we become more and more desensitized to violence, sex and profanity, it takes a lot more to shock us. Still, this movie had memorable moments that have stayed with us who first saw it at the theater 20 years ago. Most of those memorable scenes, if not all of them, involve Glenn Close's character, "Alex Forrest." Man, this is a woman who would not be denied what she wanted: in this case, married man Michael Douglas. No sense going into all the details. Everyone knows them by now, anyway. Looking back, I think the film was a good lesson for men (or women) thinking about cheating on their spouses and assuming nothing bad will happen as a result.

Men may commit more crimes, but that old adage about a "woman scorned" certainly is demonstrated here in spades! Douglas' character, "Dan Gallagher," certainly can attest to that, but he is anything but a sympathetic character. Both actors do a superb job in here, but kudos also to the rest of the Gallagher family, played by Anne Archer (wife "Beth") and Ellen Hamilton Latzen (daughter "Ellen.") Also, the cinematography shouldn't be overlooked. The widescreen DVD certainly brought out how nicely this film was shot and directed. This two-hour film keeps your attention all the way. The only thing I would change is the language, toning it down a bit. Otherwise, it's a classic thriller and one of the most famous films in the '80s. Was the above review useful to you? 38 out of 42 people found the following review useful: Terrific, tight thriller from Forest Hills, New York, USA 14 February 2000 *** This review may contain spoilers *** I had never seen Fatal Attraction until yesterday, but I had already heard about the famous pet rabbit and the closing scenes.

No matter  this is one heck of a thriller that combines terrific acting from Michael Douglas and Glenn Close with a thought-provoking story. Douglas' married Dan Gallagher and Close's Alex Forrest have a steamy affair while his wife is away. Except that Alex decides that it's not over. Her Alex is a maniacal nutcase who isn't above anything to keep Dan for herself, including terrorizing his family and kidnapping his daughter. Anne Archer plays Dan's wife; it's a role that many actresses can play in their sleep. She does a fine job, but it's similar to her roles in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. There is a larger issue here, though, and one that was discussed when the film was released: Aside from the moral problems of adultery, doesn't Alex have a point ? Isn't she entitled to something besides simply being used for a night or two ? The tension in this film is constant, although a lot of it seems too easily foreshadowed. Overall, though, a terrific thriller and a justifiably huge hit. Was the above review useful to you?

30 out of 33 people found the following review useful: WOW from Crestview, Fl 2 December 1998 This is an excellent movie about a pschyo(Close)who falls in love with Douglas and once he begins to realize he's doing the wrong thing she just won't leave him or his family alone. It is an excellent suspense thriller that moves like a rollercoaster and and keeps your attention from the beginning credits to the end credits, because the suspense never lets up once Douglas says to Close that he has to leave. This was one of Douglas' first in the "falling in love with pschyos movies" and it's the best. Some say Basic Instinct(which was basically all sex and very little suspense)was better, but this one has only one short sex scene and then it is suspenseful for the last hour and a half. It is definitely the best in his string of these kind of movies. Watch and judge for yourself. Ann Archer plays an excellent role as the determined and suspicious wife of Douglas(who pairs up perfect with pschyo Close). After the ending all you can say is WOW. ***1/2 out of **** Was the above review useful to you?

29 out of 34 people found the following review useful: An unforgettable movie 13 February 2004 *** This review may contain spoilers *** One of the most talked about films of all time, Fatal Attraction, where married men learned a very valuable lesson: keep the pants zipped. I don't think there was a more talked about film in the 80's than Fatal Attraction, it made so many people think. It was a very intelligent thriller with great characters and a terrifying story. How many women get rejected by a man and haven't fantasized about just ruining their lives as revenge? Alex Forrest was the woman who didn't just fantasize, but lived it. How many men have a woman who won't let go of them no matter what they do? Even vice versa, but this was the movie that scared men right back into their wife's arms. Dan Gallagher is a successful, happily-married attorney living in Manhattan when he meets Alex Forrest. While his wife, Beth, and daughter are out of town for the weekend, he has a passionate affair with Alex. Though he thought it was understood to be a simple fling, she begins clinging to him.

Dan explains that he must go home and Alex cuts her wrists in a suicide attempt. He thinks the affair is forgotten, but she shows up at various places to see him. She continues to call until he tells his secretary that he will no longer take her calls. She then phones his home at all hours, and then confronts him saying that she is pregnant and plans to keep the baby. Although he wants nothing to do with her, she argues that he must take responsibility. She will do anything at this point to make him be with her, even if it means destroying his family. Glenn Close who had only played the nice girl roles blew everyone's mind when she played Alex Forrest. What passion she put into the role and part of you couldn't really hate her. She brings up a great point to Dan "Because I won't allow you to treat me like some slut you can just bang a couple of times and throw in the garbage?". Your heart does break for her but at the same time you want to scream at her to let go of Dan and not hurt his family. Michael Douglas as Dan plays the role extremely well.

He gives Dan a sense of realism, he's not a major jerk who just looks for random women, he makes a mistake and owns up to it. He's still very smart, but very frightened and rightfully so when he learns what Alex can do to him. You believe that he loves his family, he made a bad choice and don't we all? The consequences were a bit extreme this time. Ann Archer as Beth was not only beautiful, classy, but incredibly intelligent. She makes Beth so real and I loved her line that I found out was improvised when Dan tells her that he cheated "What is the matter with you?!", how many women or men have screamed that when getting hurt? Ellen Hamilton Latzen as Ellen, their daughter, is one of the best child actors you could imagine. She doesn't make her character annoying and when she sees her parents crying, she breaks down and you just want to hold her so badly. What talent at such a young age. Fatal Attraction was made so well and the reason why I think it holds up is because it is a very intelligent movie with great characters. You could relate in one way or another.

Just a side note, I do wish they stuck with the original ending since it would have made more sense with Alex's character, I won't give it away, but it also would have been ironic with her and Dan's love for "Madame Butterfly". But people wanted to see Alex get what she had coming after her being named a "bunny boiler". But trust me when I say this is one of the best movies to come out of the 80's and I still love watching it. 9/10 23 April 2005 *** This review may contain spoilers *** The back story goes that Glenn Close couldn't do sexy to save her life. She, of course, being the great actress she is, set herself out to prove her detractors wrong, and has gone down in history for having single-handedly made "love in an elevator" a household name and something horny lovers would look forward to, especially in a semi-deserted building after hours.

Never dressed in anything other than black or white (in a nod to Lana Turner's own femme fatale wardrobe in THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE), and with long, curly hair enhancing her cold, Connecticut looks, she lights up the screen in her hotly sensual, sympathetic introduction, and just as the black she wears later on as she turns into the psycho she really is, makes the audience completely hate her -- so of course, killing her off was in order to please the crowd who despite having the logics of plot thrown out the window demanded her death in a steamy bathtub at the hands of Anne Archer. That's the power of acting, people. She is the film down to its illogical but emotionally satisfying ending, and anything else is just a false 80s "family values" hogwash. When you think FATAL ATTRACTION, you think Glenn Close, dressed in white, sexual fury personified, holding that huge cleaver in hand. Was the above review useful to you?

20 out of 24 people found the following review useful: Made me squirm from United States 9 September 2001 Although I found myself checking the elapsed time during this movie to get some idea of when it would end, the final scenes made me squirm with sympathetic fright for the characters. Roger Ebert says the filmmakers ruined a perfectly good psychological thriller by attaching a "Friday the 13th" ending. The IMDb Trivia page says the movie originally had a different ending in which Glenn Close's character commits suicide and Michael Douglas' character is arrested for her murder. Ebert and most serious film lovers would likely have preferred that ending. But making profitable movies sometimes means making them unpalatable for highbrow students of film. Nevertheless, the "flawed" film resonated with women. I have vague memories of female friends and acquaintances in the late '80s seeing "Fatal Attraction" as an example of what SHOULD happen to any man who cheats on his wife. The movie found a place in our culture for a while, and the title was a euphemism for similar happenings in real life.

One wonders how much this movie had to do with the near universal creation of "stalker laws" in the 1990s. Was the above review useful to you? 16 out of 18 people found the following review useful: WOW.... 30 September 2002 *** This review may contain spoilers *** I swear, I have seen Fatal Attraction at least 15 times, and each time I watch it, I am on the edge of my seat. Glen Close does an AMAZING job as Alex, a psychopath, who becomes obsessed with a married man (Douglas.) The first time I saw this movie, I was shocked... Every second something happened that made me become more and more trapped into this movie. Theres the slitting of the wrists, the baby, the Volvo... and who could forget the bunny?? (poor bunny fu fu.) Anyway, for any one who loves thrillers, one-night stands, or thrillers... this is the KING of all others... Was the above review useful to you? 25 out of 36 people found the following review useful: Great Movie!

from United States 28 February 2006 This was a magnificent thriller - Douglas was great, Close was marvelous, but Ann Archer was the greatest. Great concept, excellent filming, perfectly executed acting. What more could one desire? Definite edge-of-the-seat pace - NOT a waste of time to see. I own the video, and I do not own many videos; this was the perfect see-it-over-and-over film. Even now, at age 50+, there are scenes that are the best I have ever witnessed in a movie. Douglas portrayed many men who finds his lover pregnant, though perhaps a bit more understanding in his initial attempt to support the woman. Close portrayed the unexpressed emotions of many women who have been in this situation, anger personified and vengeance motivated. The fact that her mental makeup was destroyed prior to her affair makes no difference in the expression of emotions, until, of course, she takes her emotions out on the family. Men, take notice! This could happen to you if you choose to have an affair. :) Was the above review useful to you?

Page 1 of 21: Glenn Close And Michael Douglas Have ‘Fatal Attraction’ Reunion EMAIL Getty Image We certainly hope they didn’t bring a rabbit with them! Glenn Close and Michael Douglas , the co-stars of the 1980’s thriller Fatal Attraction, reunited recently at an AARP luncheon honoring Douglas in New York City. Although Douglas’ wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and directing friends like Joel Schumacher were in the audience, Close got a special shout out because of the bond they formed while on set nearly 30 years ago. During his acceptance speech, Douglas said the following words: “Sitting next to me is Glenn Close, and Glenn and I did a little movie in [the 1980s] which stood a lot of people on their heads, called Fatal Attraction.

It was a brave film … it’s part of the memory of those films that keeps us all together and our friendships [thriving] … and I’m so happy to hear she’s doing Sunset Boulevard now in London, which is going to be very very exciting.” The love between the two elder statesmen of Hollywood isn’t just a one way street either, with Glenn reciprocating the sweet thoughts shortly after in her own speech: “I love Michael so much that I stopped coloring my hair so I could look like him. When I first started working with Michael those years ago … he was such Hollywood royalty and I had done mostly theater.” Suffice to say that a few decades and many other movies on their rosters have not lessened the warmth these actors feel for each other. Watching actors foster relationships with each other in real life is always special to watch, and the fact that Close and Douglas are still so fond of each other after such lengthy careers is sweet in that overwhelming way that kind of makes you want to snap and boil a bunny. Fatal Attraction | Sunset Boulevard May 20, 2013 Fatal Attraction Fatal Attraction is rather curious film.

It’s one of those movies that has slyly dived into our societal memory bank, simultaneously ticking the boxes of cautionary tale and popular culture phenomenon. Not to mention the fact that Glenn Close single-handedly freaked an entire generation of men out of cheating on their wives. Part psychological thriller, part unrivalled sleaze-fest, Fatal Attraction remains as inherently watchable as it must have been 26 years ago. Life really is fantastic for Dan Gallagher (Douglas), a New York attorney with a gorgeous wife and an adorable little girl. With the family gone for the weekend however, Dan indulges in a torrid affair with a colleague, the successful career woman Alex Forrest. As the weekend draws to a close, Dan wants to end it, Alex does not —fairly basic stuff. The greatness of Fatal Attraction lies, however, not in its surprising plot (for even the twists are admittedly obvious) but in the faultless execution of this conventional story. The film starts off with a seductive foreboding, with Dan and Alex enjoying each other’s company, listening to Madame Butterfly no less. As the hopelessness of her situation dawns on Alex, she slits her wrists as a haunting farewell to her lover.

This marks the beginning of Alex’s stalkerishly horrifying actions, each more desperate than the last, and each contributing to the thickening tension which spills over spectacularly in the film’s final moments. In particular, there are two instances which stand out as especially significant. There is a scene at about the halfway mark in which the family are getting ready for a move to the country. (The suburbs are thought to be a good change for their daughter, though undeniably there must be other reasons behinds Gallagher’s decision.) Dan finds his wife discussing their apartment and the new house with a potential buyer —Miss Alex Forrest is sitting in his home drinking tea. Underscored with rumbling timpani, the audience feels a rush of fearful admiration for the ingenious Alex. Perhaps the most suspenseful scene of all though is the one in which Alex kidnaps the little girl. Beth, the wife of Gallagher, drives frantically, searching for her daughter. This is mirrored through the erratic camera movements, flitting and zooming all over the place as if through the eyes of the distraught mother herself. All the while, this scene is juxtaposed with one of Alex who has taken Dan’s daughter to a carnival.

The camera is fluid and easy, even still at times, which exaggerates the already unbearable tension. Suddenly, the positions are switched. Alex and the kid are on a coaster and the camera moves with a frightful irregularity just as Beth’s scene grinds to a sudden standstill. The little girl screams; we cut back to Beth, who has crashed her car. There is also no doubt that a huge reason for the success of Fatal Attraction is its superb cast. In the role of Alex Forrest, Glenn Close epitomises the ex-girlfriend stalker character. By the end of the film, Close shapes up to become the ultimate bunny boiler (she did, after all, boil a bunny) who still somehow manages to generate a twinge of sympathy. Now that really is laudable. Douglas too, however smarmy he may have come across at the start, becomes an oddly sympathetic character. We see a flawed man, but a man who loves his family and is truly ashamed of what he has done. For me though, it is Anne Archer’s Beth Gallagher that really shines. In what is perhaps the least obvious role, Archer creates an intimate portrait of a mother cruelly torn out of her untroubled existence.

The episode in which Douglas finally reveals the affair to his wife is a truly heartbreaking one. Together, these characters creates a ring of unbreakable relatability, and may provide an insight into precisely why Fatal Attraction smashed at the box office. Some feel the chosen ending of the moviesells out and goes all “Hollywood.” I guess the statement is true to an extent. (When audiences won’t stop screaming “Kill the crazy bitch!” what can you really do?) After viewing them both carefully, I think it’s fair to say that they both have their merits. The original carries on the ominous Butterfly theme and seems a tad more plausible, but that the second is clearly the slap-bang finale that we’ve all been hoping for. Moreover, I think there is also a satisfying reversal of the roles; the timid Beth ultimately shoots the woman who threatens to harm her family. Which one do you prefer?

Fatal Attraction doesn't get away with it in the West End – reviews roundup | Stage | The Guardian West End Fatal Attraction doesn't get away with it in the West End – reviews roundup The UK's theatre critics find little justification for Trevor Nunn's staging of the 80s film about adultery and a rabbit in jeopardy West End Fatal Attraction doesn't get away with it in the West End – reviews roundup The UK's theatre critics find little justification for Trevor Nunn's staging of the 80s film about adultery and a rabbit in jeopardy Wednesday 26 March 2014 11.07 EDT First published on Wednesday 26 March 2014 11.07 EDT Share on Messenger Close It was the 1987 movie thriller that helpfully lent us a label – "bunny-boiler" – for any emotionally unstable thirtysomething woman with a rampant sex drive and a biological clock. But did the West End really need a stage version of this cautionary tale of corporate New York adultery, even one with such an indisputably starry cast and a real rabbit? The consensus among today's reviewers is that no, it did not.

"It's a shocker," cries Dominic Maxwell of the Times – and not in the way writer James Dearden and director Trevor Nunn intended. Dearden wanted to reinstate the ambivalence that Hollywood edited out of his original screenplay. "Fair enough," writes Maxwell – "many criticised Glenn Close's character, Alex Forrest, for being a caricature both of career women and of the mentally ill. Yet Dearden has changed all too little. He follows the original trajectory pretty much scene by scene, almost line by line.

And Nunn, one of our greatest directors, has simply plonked it all on stage without suggesting that he has found a theatrical language for it all." The Telegraph's Charles Spencer is similarly baffled: "Quite why the distinguished director Trevor Nunn has decided to direct this high-class schlock is a mystery to me … We are a long way here from his glory days with the RSC." Pacing is the issue for Paul Taylor of the Independent : "The movie, though meretricious, is horribly compelling whereas, despite the tense flashback-structure, this worthier, more equivocal stage drama left me feeling weirdly detached throughout." Credit where credit's due, says the Guardian's Michael Billington – "the actors do all they can within the script's limits", notably the British lead Mark Bazeley , who conveys the "escalating panic and self-loathing" of the married male lead, Dan Gallagher. Maxwell agrees: "Expect to see more of Bazeley." The women, however, have mercilessly little to work with.

" Natascha McElhone makes Alex a softer and more initially hesitant figure than Glenn Close in the movie but lacks the backstory to illuminate her descent into borderline psychosis," says Billington, while Kristin Davis, in the underwritten role of Dan's wife, is "left trying to make bricks without straw." Taylor finds more to admire: "Davis is very convincing as Dan's smiley spouse, showing us the deep hurt of a woman with fertility problems at the news that her husband has impregnated a casual fling." You wonder who thought this was good enough, writes Maxwell. "It's not that they are acting badly, more that this is all just looks such a literal attempt to put a film on stage." A plot originally accused of misogyny is still presented from Dan's point of view, notes Billington, "even more so in that, in the play, he becomes the narrator". Charles Spencer finds something to praise in Robert Jones's "sleekly designed" set and "clever use of photographic montage". But while the show does have "a mechanical efficiency", says Billington, "no scene lasts long enough to make an emotional impact", making it an "essentially hollow experience". Not even Puccini can fill the void.

"The repeated references to Madam Butterfly … seem like a doomed attempt to elevate pulp fiction to high art," says Spencer, while the Stage's Mark Shenton tweets: "I might also call Fatal Attraction cheap commercial tat, if it wasn't so palpably expensive." Dearden has reinstated his original ending, replaced after test audiences demanded a more thrilling denouement. "I'm with the test audiences," concludes Maxwell curtly. But does the bunny get it? Well, yes and no, says Maxwell – "the transition from bunny-in-a-cage to bunny-in-a-saucepan is interrupted by a blackout, so there's no sense of danger. Indeed, from my seat at the side of the stalls, I could see the bunny still alive and well in its cage." As Alex says to Dan: "I guess you thought you'd get away with it.

Well, you can't." Trevor Nunn's production with Natascha McElhone and Mark Bazeley shows that cinema is better than theatre when it comes to sex, voiceovers and structure Published: 28 Mar 2014 Fatal Attraction stage show: "Bunny Boiler" film Fatal Attraction to be made into theatre production - Mirror Online Iconic: Michael Douglas with Glenn Close in the film Fatal Attraction Share Get celebs updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Fatal Attraction, the 1980s movie which famously gave rise to the phrase "bunny boiler," is to be made into a stage show. The 1980s movie, starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close, gave rise to the phrase which denotes a disgruntled lover or odd ball. The name derives from the horrifying moment Close's character 'Alex Forrest' leaves Douglas's character Dan Gallagher's son's pet rabbit boiling in a pan on a stove. British actress Natascha McElhone will play Forrest in the new stage version, which will open in London in March.

It will be directed by West End and Broadway veteran Trevor Nunn, publicists Premier Communications said on Friday. The play, which starts previews on March 8, has been adapted for the stage by James Dearden, who was nominated for an Oscar in 1988 for his screenplay. The male lead to take the part of Dan, played by Douglas in the movie which was one of the big hits of 1987, is to be announced shortly, a spokeswoman for the publicists said. McElhone is a stage, screen and television actress best known for her parts in "The Truman Show" and "Ronin" - and for her role as Karen in the US television series "Californication". The movie is about a married man who has what he thinks will be a weekend affair with a woman while his wife is away, but is afterwards pursued by her in a series of increasingly aggressive ways leading to a gory conclusion. Forrest's attack on Gallagher's family by breaking into his home and killing his daughter's pet rabbit, leaving it in a pot on the stove to boil, gave rise to the expression "bunny boiler".

Like us on Facebook Fatal Attraction – Behind the Scenes | The Pioneer Woman Fatal Attraction – Behind the Scenes by Ree on October 19, 2011 I stayed up too late last night watching a behind-the-scenes show about the making of Fatal Attraction on Biography. (I think it was on Biography. Again, it was late.) Here’s just a handful of things I found out: 1. Did you know Fatal Attraction originally had a completely different ending? In the original, Glenn Close takes her own life following the fight with Michael Douglas wherein he threatens to kill her if she tells his wife about their affair, then he winds up being arrested for her murder because his fingerprints are on the knife (because he had grabbed it from Glenn when she tried to stab him during the fight).

The original version was supposed to end with Michael Douglas sitting in the electric chair screaming “I am innocent!” (Huh?) This version obviously fell flat with audiences, who viewed Michael Douglass as a sympathetic character, so they reworked the show so that after his arrest for the murder, Anne Archer (Michael’s beautiful wife) discovers the cassette tape Glenn had made for Michael—the one in which she rambled on for hours about how much she loved him and how she wouldn’t be able to go on living if he were to reject her—and she rushes the tape to the police as proof that Michael didn’t do it. (Hmm.) In the end, they wound up completely reworking the ending again so that Anne Archer is forced to shoot Glenn Close in order to protect her family, and it’s the one audiences loved the most. They wanted Michael’s character to almost lose everything…but find redemption in the end. 2. Glenn Close was actually quite shy and reserved, and she said that during the scene in her apartment where she’s wearing a teddy and saying “I’m not going to be IGNORED, Dan!” her unease with wearing such skimpy clothing greatly contributed to her her appearing nervous and unstable. (I could totally relate to this.

I’m shy about my body, and if I had to wear a teddy in front of a crew, I’d be nervous and unstable, too.) 3. During their *ahem* more raucous love scenes, Glenn Close had to drink half a pitcher of margaritas in order to have the courage to film them. (All I could think about here was how I wouldn’t be able to stop laughing. It sure is a good thing I: a) can not act b) probably would not be cast as a femme fatale even if I could act Because I’d pretty much use up my paycheck cracking up the whole time.) 4. I won’t tell you what I learned about the rabbit scene. (You really don’t want to know.) The show was so interesting. I love behind-the-scenes stories of movie production, especially years and years after their release. It’s like discovering a little treasure chest of secrets. It also makes me want to watch the movie again. As nutso and disturbing as it was, it really was a classic. (Though I think I’ll fast forward through the rabbit scene next time.)

Question: In which 1987 movie thriller did Glenn Close boil a bunny?
Answer: Fatal Attraction