Fatal Attraction

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Fatal Attraction
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Directed by Adrian Lyne
Screenplay by James Dearden
Based on Diversion
by James Dearden
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Howard Atherton
Edited by
Music by Maurice Jarre
Production
company
Jaffe/Lansing Productions
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • September 18, 1987 (1987-09-18)
Running time
119 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$14 million [1]
Box office$320.1 million [2]

Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne from a screenplay by James Dearden, based on his 1980 short film Diversion . It stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer. It follows a married man's one-night stand coming back to haunt him when the scorned mistress begins to stalk him and his family.

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Fatal Attraction was theatrically released in the United States on September 18, 1987, by Paramount Pictures. The film emerged as a major commercial success at the box-office, grossing over $320 million worldwide and becoming the second highest-grossing film of the year in the United States. It received widespread critical acclaim, with high praise for Lyne's direction, Dearden's screenplay, the editing, and the performances of Close, Archer, and Douglas.

Plot

Daniel "Dan" Gallagher is a successful and married lawyer from Manhattan. He meets Alexandra "Alex" Forrest, an editor for a publishing company. While his wife, Beth, and daughter, Ellen, are out of town for the weekend, Dan has an affair with Alex. Initially, it seems that both understand it to be just a fling, but Alex begins to cling to him.

Dan reluctantly spends the following day with Alex at her request. When he tries to leave again, she cuts her wrists in a move to manipulate him into staying and saving her. Dan helps her, stays overnight to ensure she is all right, and leaves in the morning.

Alex shows up at his office to apologize for her behavior and invites him to a performance of Madame Butterfly . He declines politely but she continues to call at his office until he informs his secretary that he will no longer take her calls.

Alex insists that Dan meet with her and informs him that she is pregnant, arguing that he must take responsibility. After Dan changes his phone number, Alex meets Beth, who has advertised selling their apartment. That night, Dan goes to Alex's apartment to confront her, and they get into a scuffle. She declares, "I'm not gonna be ignored."

Dan relocates his family to Bedford, but this does not dissuade Alex. She has a tape recording of herself delivered to him, which is full of verbal abuse. She stalks him, pours acid on his car, and follows him home one night. The sight of his family makes her vomit.

Alex's obsession escalates when Dan approaches the police to file a restraining order, claiming it is "for a client."The lieutenant informs him he cannot violate Alex's rights without probable cause, and the "client" must own up to his adultery.

When the Gallaghers are away, Alex kills Ellen's pet rabbit and boils it on their stove. Following this, Dan confesses the affair and Alex's pregnancy to his family. Enraged, Beth orders him to leave. Prior to departing, Dan calls Alex to say his wife knows about the affair. Beth takes the phone and says she will kill Alex if she persists.

Alex takes Ellen from school and to an amusement park. Beth drives around frantically looking for her, and gets into an accident, requiring hospitalization. Alex returns Ellen home unharmed.

Dan forcibly enters Alex's apartment and attempts to strangle her, but stops short of killing her. She grabs a kitchen knife and lunges at him, but he disarms her and departs. The police search for Alex after Dan reports the kidnapping. Beth forgives him and the couple returns home.

Beth runs a bath, but before she can get in Alex appears with a knife and explains that Beth is obstructing her from having Dan. She attacks her, and Dan rushes in, appearing to drown her. Alex suddenly emerges from the water, brandishing the knife.

Beth returns with a gun and shoots Alex, who is seen bleeding from her chest, with a look of shock on her face, before dying in the tub. Dan completes his statement to the police and joins Beth in the living room, with a picture of their family in the foreground.

Cast

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Douglas as Dan Gallagher

Production

Writing

The film was adapted by James Dearden (with assistance from Nicholas Meyer) [3] [4] from Diversion , an earlier 1980 short film by Dearden for British television. In Meyer's book The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood, he explains that in late 1986 producer Stanley R. Jaffe asked him to look at the script developed by Dearden, and he wrote a four-page memo making suggestions, including a new ending. John Carpenter was approached to direct the film, but turned it down as he felt it was too similar to Play Misty for Me (1971). [5] A few weeks later Meyer met with director Adrian Lyne and gave him some additional suggestions. Ultimately Meyer was asked to redraft the script on the basis of his suggestions, which ended up being the shooting script.

Casting

Producers Sherry Lansing and Stanley R. Jaffe both had serious doubts about casting Glenn Close because they did not think she could be sexual enough for the role of Alex. Instead, they had many other actresses in mind for the role. [6] Barbara Hershey was originally considered; she wanted the role but she was unavailable. [7] Several actresses auditioned for the part, but they were almost all turned down. [7] Lyne had French actress Isabelle Adjani in mind for the role. [8] Tracey Ullman was approached for the role, but she declined due to a scene in the script where the character boils a bunny. [9] Miranda Richardson also turned it down as she found it "hideous." [10] Ellen Barkin, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Melanie Griffith and Michelle Pfeiffer were also considered for the role. [11] [12] Kirstie Alley auditioned for the role. [11] Close was persistent, and after meeting with Jaffe several times in New York, she was asked to fly out to Los Angeles to read with Michael Douglas in front of Adrian Lyne and Lansing. Before the audition, she let her naturally frizzy hair "go wild" because she was impatient at putting it up, and she wore a slimming black dress she thought made her look "fabulous" to the audition. [13] This impressed Lansing, because Close "came in looking completely different... right away she was into the part." [14] Close and Douglas performed a scene from early in the script, where Alex flirts with Dan in a café, and Close came away "convinced my career was over, that I was finished, I had completely blown my chances". [6] Lansing and Lyne were both convinced she was right for the role; Lyne stated that "an extraordinary erotic transformation took place. She was this tragic, bewildering mix of sexuality and rage—I watched Alex come to life." [15]

To prepare for her role, Close consulted several psychologists, hoping to understand Alex's psyche and motivations. She was uncomfortable with the bunny boiling scene, which she thought was too extreme, but she was assured on consulting the psychologists that such an action was entirely possible and that Alex's behavior corresponded to someone who had experienced incestual sexual abuse as a child. [6] [16]

Filming

While filming her death scene, Close suffered a concussion and she wound up in the hospital; she later found out that she was pregnant during filming. [17]

Alternate ending

Alex Forrest was originally scripted slashing her throat at the film's end with the knife Dan had left on the counter, so as to make it appear that Dan had murdered her. After seeing her husband being taken away by police, Beth finds a revealing cassette tape that Alex sent Dan in which she threatens to kill herself. Upon realizing Alex's intentions, Beth takes the tape to the police, who clear Dan of the murder. The last scene shows, in flashback, Alex taking her own life by slashing her throat while listening to Madame Butterfly.

After doing test screenings, Joseph Farrell (who handled the test screenings) suggested that Paramount shoot a new ending. [18] [19] [20]

In the 2002 Special Edition DVD, Close comments that she had doubts about re-shooting the film's ending because she believed the character would "self-destruct and commit suicide." [21] Close eventually gave in on her concerns, and filmed the new sequence after having fought against the change for two weeks. [21] [4] In 2010, during a cast reunion interview, Close shared that she "never thought of [her character] as a villain," [22] stating that: "I wasn't playing a generality. I wasn't playing a cliché. I was playing a very specific, deeply disturbed, fragile human being, whom I had grown to love." [6] Though the ending was not the one she preferred, she acknowledged that the film would not have experienced the enormous success it did without the new ending, because it gave the audience "a sense of catharsis, a hope, that somehow the family unit would survive the nightmare." [6]

The film's first Japanese release used the original ending. The original ending also appeared on a special edition VHS and LaserDisc release by Paramount in 1992, and was included on the film's DVD release a decade later. [23]

Home media

A Special Collector's Edition of the film was released on DVD in 2002. [24] Paramount released Fatal Attraction on Blu-ray Disc on June 9, 2009. [25] The Blu-ray contained several bonus features from the 2002 DVD, including commentary by director Adrian Lyne, cast and crew interviews, a look at the film's cultural phenomenon, a behind-the-scenes look, rehearsal footage, the alternative ending, and the original theatrical trailer. In April 2020 a remastered Blu-ray Disc was released by Paramount Home Entertainment under their Paramount Presents series. Included was a new interview with the director titled Filmmaker Focus, previous rehearsal footage but excluding some of the extra features from previous releases. [26] Paramount released the film on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray in the U.S. on September 13, 2022. [27]

Reception

Box office

Fatal Attraction grossed $156.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $163.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $320.1 million. [2] [28]

The film spent eight weeks at number one in the United States, where it was the second-highest-grossing film of 1987, behind Three Men and a Baby . [29] In the United Kingdom, it grossed a record £2,048,421 in its opening week and spent ten weeks at number one. [30] In Australia, it was the first non-Australian film to gross A$2 million in its opening week, second to Crocodile Dundee . [31] Fatal Attraction eventually became the highest-grossing film worldwide in 1987. [32]

Nominations

Fatal Attraction received 6 nominations at the 60th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (for Lyne), Best Actress (Close) and Best Supporting Actress (Archer), but failed to win any. At the 42nd British Academy Film Awards, the film won Best Editing, while earning nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Douglas) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Archer). It received 4 nominations at the 45th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director (Lyne), Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (Close) and Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (Archer), but, again, failed to win any.[ needs copy edit ]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 74% of 61 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.8/10.The website's consensus reads: "A potboiler in the finest sense, Fatal Attraction is a sultry, juicy thriller that's hard to look away from once it gets going." [33] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 67 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [34] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an F to A+ scale. [35]

Janet Maslin of The New York Times lauded Lyne's direction, writing that he "takes a brilliantly manipulative approach to what might have been a humdrum subject and shapes a soap opera of exceptional power. Most of that power comes directly from visual imagery, for Mr. Lyne is well versed in making anything - a person, a room, a pile of dishes in a kitchen sink - seem tactile, rich and sexy." [36] Richard Schickel of Time stated that Close and Douglas "gives the film some of its fatal attractiveness. So do James Dearden's plausible, nicely observant script, Adrian Lyne's elegantly unforced direction, and Close's beautifully calibrated descent into lunacy. Together they bring horror home to a place where the grownup moviegoer actually lives." [37]

Author Susan Faludi discussed the film in Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women , arguing that major changes had been made to the original plot in order to make Alex wholly negative, while Dan's carelessness and the lack of compassion and responsibility raised no discussion, except for a small number of men's groups who said that Dan was eventually forced to own up to his irresponsibility in that "everyone pays the piper". [38] Close was quoted in 2008 as saying, "Men still come up to me and say, 'You scared the shit out of me.' Sometimes they say, 'You saved my marriage.'" [39] Critic Barry Norman expressed sympathy for feminists who were frustrated by the film, criticized its "over-the-top" ending and called it inferior to Clint Eastwood's Play Misty for Me , which has a similar plot. Nonetheless, he declared it "strong and very well made, excellently played by the three main characters and neatly written." [40] Fatal Attraction has been described as a neo-noir film by some authors. [41]

Fatal Attraction was the first American film to be distributed by United International Pictures in South Korea. In September 1988, Korean film distributors protested this release by "releasing snakes, setting fire in the theatres, and tearing off the screens." [42]

Psychiatrists and film experts have analyzed the character of Alex Forrest and used her as an illustration of borderline personality disorder. [43] She exhibits impulsive behavior, emotional instability, a fear of abandonment, frequent episodes of intense anger, self-harming, and shifting between idealization and devaluation of others, all of which are characteristic of the disorder. The degree to which she displays these traits is not necessarily typical, and aggression in people with borderline personality disorder is often directed toward themselves rather than others. [44]

As referenced in Orit Kamir's Every Breath You Take: Stalking Narratives and the Law, "Glenn Close's character Alex is quite deliberately made to be an erotomaniac. Gelder reports that Close "consulted three separate shrinks for an inner profile of her character, who is meant to be suffering from a form of an obsessive condition known as de Clérambault's syndrome" (Gelder 1990, 93–94). [45] The term "bunny boiler" is used to describe an obsessive, spurned woman, deriving from the scene where it is discovered that Alex has boiled the family's pet rabbit. [46] [47] [48] [49]

Accolades and honors

AwardCategoryNominee(s)Result
Academy Awards [50] Best Picture Stanley R. Jaffe and Sherry Lansing Nominated
Best Director Adrian Lyne Nominated
Best Actress Glenn Close Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Anne Archer Nominated
Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium James Dearden Nominated
Best Film Editing Michael Kahn and Peter E. Berger Nominated
American Cinema Editors Awards Best Edited Feature Film Nominated
Artios Awards [51] Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film Casting – Drama Risa Bramon Garcia and Billy HopkinsNominated
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards Top Box Office Films Maurice Jarre Won
British Academy Film Awards [52] Best Actor in a Leading Role Michael Douglas Nominated
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Anne ArcherNominated
Best Editing Michael Kahn and Peter E. BergerWon
David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Actor Michael DouglasNominated
Best Foreign Actress Glenn CloseNominated
Directors Guild of America Awards [53] Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Adrian LyneNominated
DVD Exclusive Awards Original Retrospective Documentary, Library ReleaseJon BarbourNominated
Golden Globe Awards [54] Best Motion Picture – Drama Nominated
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Glenn CloseNominated
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Anne ArcherNominated
Best Director – Motion Picture Adrian LyneNominated
Goldene Kamera Golden ScreenWon
Best International ActorMichael DouglasWon
Best International ActressGlenn CloseWon
Grammy Awards [55] Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Maurice JarreNominated
Japan Academy Film Prize Outstanding Foreign Language Film Nominated
National Board of Review Awards [56] Top Ten Films 7th Place
People's Choice Awards Favorite Dramatic Motion PictureWon
Saturn Awards Best Writing James DeardenNominated
Writers Guild of America Awards [57] Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium Nominated

American Film Institute recognition

Adaptations

Play

A play based on the film opened in London's West End at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in March 2014. [60] It was adapted by the film's original screenwriter James Dearden. [61]

TV series

On July 2, 2015, Fox announced that a TV series based on the film was being developed by Mad Men writers Maria and Andre Jacquemetton. [62] On January 13, 2017, it was announced that the project was canceled. [63]

On February 24, 2021, it was announced that Paramount+ planned to reboot the film as a series for their platform. It would be written by Alexandra Cunningham and Kevin J. Hynes and produced by Cunningham, Hynes, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank of Amblin Entertainment, Stanley Jaffe, and Sherry Lansing. [64] On November 11, Lizzy Caplan was announced to play Alex Forrest in the new series and Joshua Jackson joined in January 2022 as Dan Gallagher. [65]

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