Post by bruce on Mar 31, 2011 18:06:23 GMT -5
Fatal Attraction is an American thriller directed by Adrian Lyne and stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer.
Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) is a successful, happily married New York attorney living in Manhattan when he meets Alexandra (Alex) Forrest (Glenn Close), an editor for a publishing company, through business. While his wife, Beth (Anne Archer), and daughter, Ellen, are out of town for the weekend, Dan 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. Dan helps her to bandage her wrists and later leaves. He thinks the affair is forgotten, but she shows up at various places to see him. She waits at his office one day to apologize and invite him to the opera Madama Butterfly, but he turns her down. She then calls his office until he tells his secretary he will no longer take her calls. Alex then calls his home at all hours and informs him that she is pregnant and plans to keep the baby. She shows up at his apartment and meets Beth, feigning interest as a buyer. Dan moves his family to the New York village of Bedford, but this doesn't deter Alex. She stalks him in a parking garage, pours acid on his vehicle, and follows him home one night to spy on him. Dan approaches the police to apply for a restraining order against her, to which the police lieutenant claims that he cannot violate her rights without probable cause and that the adulterer has to own up to his adultery. Her obsession again escalates.
Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) is a successful, happily married New York attorney living in Manhattan when he meets Alexandra (Alex) Forrest (Glenn Close), an editor for a publishing company, through business. While his wife, Beth (Anne Archer), and daughter, Ellen, are out of town for the weekend, Dan 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. Dan helps her to bandage her wrists and later leaves. He thinks the affair is forgotten, but she shows up at various places to see him. She waits at his office one day to apologize and invite him to the opera Madama Butterfly, but he turns her down. She then calls his office until he tells his secretary he will no longer take her calls. Alex then calls his home at all hours and informs him that she is pregnant and plans to keep the baby. She shows up at his apartment and meets Beth, feigning interest as a buyer. Dan moves his family to the New York village of Bedford, but this doesn't deter Alex. She stalks him in a parking garage, pours acid on his vehicle, and follows him home one night to spy on him. Dan approaches the police to apply for a restraining order against her, to which the police lieutenant claims that he cannot violate her rights without probable cause and that the adulterer has to own up to his adultery. Her obsession again escalates.