Fatal Attraction (1987)
82 %
Reviews Counted: 38 Fresh: 31 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 39 mins
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Fred Gwynne, Stuart Pankin
Director: Adrian Lyne
Screenwriter: James Dearden, Nicholas Meyer
Producer: Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
Composer: Maurice Jarre
Screenwriter: James Dearden, Nicholas Meyer
Producer: Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
Composer: Maurice Jarre
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Reviews
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Close attention reveals plenty of flaws but for sheer heart-in-the-mouth excitement it remains a triumph.
02/11/08
[The film brings] horror home to a place where the grownup moviegoer actually lives.
02/11/08
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This story of an extramarital fling that turns into a nightmare begins as a well-crafted psychological thriller but degenerates into a misogynistic thrill-fest in its closing moments.
02/11/08
The screws are tightened expertly in this suspenseful meller about a flipped-out femme who makes life hell for the married man who scorns her.
02/11/08
Top Critic
While billed as a romance and a thriller, the film strictly qualifies as neither, appealing to our prurience, guilt, hatred, and dread.
02/11/08
Top Critic
An extremely well-directed and acted (particularly by Glenn Close as the career woman) thriller that also functions as cautionary tale about sex in the swinging 1970s and parable of AIDS in the 1980s.
06/26/06
A predictable dog's dinner of Pavlovian thriller clichés, this will appeal strongly to those who think women should be kept on a short lead.
01/26/06
The movie's sexual politics are a little acrid, but its construction is so persuasive and the lead performances so inspired that the film is hard to resist.
07/29/04
Relentless thriller that quickens one's pulse as it startles the mind.
07/10/03
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