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Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American 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.
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. Fatal Attraction received six nominations at the 60th Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Daniel "Dan" Gallagher is an attorney from Manhattan. While his wife, Beth, and daughter, Ellen, are out of town visiting Beth's family, he has an affair with Alexandra "Alex" Forrest, an editor for a publishing company whom he had recently met at a work function. Initially, it seems that both Dan and Alex understand their affair 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, she cuts her wrists in a manipulative ploy to have him stay and save her. Dan helps her, stays overnight to ensure that she is all right and then leaves in the morning.
Alex shows up at his office to apologize for her behavior and invites him to a performance of Madame Butterfly, but he declines. She continues to call him 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 their phone number, Alex meets Beth, who has advertised selling their apartment, pretending to be interested in buying it. That night, Dan goes to Alex's apartment to confront her, and they get into a scuffle. In one of the movie's most famous lines, she declares, "I'm not going to be ignored, Dan."
Dan, Beth and Ellen move 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 onto his car and follows him home later that evening. The sight of his happy family through their window 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 that he cannot violate Alex's rights without probable cause, and that the "client" must own up to his adultery.
When Dan, Beth and Ellen return home one day after being out, Beth finds Ellen's pet rabbit dead, having been left boiling in a pot on their stove. Dan knows that Alex was behind it and, following this, confesses the affair and Alex's pregnancy to Beth. Enraged, Beth orders him to leave. Prior to departing, Dan calls Alex to say that his wife knows about the affair. Beth takes the phone and tells Alex that she will kill her if Alex comes near their family again.
Soon thereafter, Alex picks Ellen up from her school and kidnaps her, taking her to an amusement park. Beth drives around frantically looking for her and gets into an accident, requiring hospitalization. Alex returns Ellen home unharmed later that day.
After visiting Beth in the hospital, 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 manages to disarm her and then leaves. The police begin to search for Alex after Dan reports the kidnapping. Beth forgives Dan, and they return home after Beth is discharged from the hospital.
That evening, Dan is downstairs in the kitchen making tea for Beth while Beth is upstairs in the bathroom getting ready to take a bath. Before she disrobes and gets in, Alex suddenly appears with a knife. She accuses Beth of obstructing her from having Dan and attacks her. Dan rushes upstairs after hearing the attack. Initially, Dan is able to subdue Alex and appears to drown her in the bathtub. Moments later, she suddenly emerges from the water, swinging the knife. Beth quickly returns with a gun and shoots Alex, killing her. Dan completes his statement to the police and joins Beth in the living room, with a picture of their family in the foreground.
The film was adapted by James Dearden (with assistance from Nicholas Meyer)[4][5] from Diversion, a 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).[6] 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.
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.[7][17]
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.
When the film was test-screened for audiences, the ending was poorly received as audiences disliked the idea of Alex triumphing in the end. After doing test screenings, Joseph Farrell (who handled the test screenings) suggested that Paramount shoot a new ending. While Douglas approved of changing the ending as he believed it was "best for the film", most of the cast and crew disliked the idea, mainly Anne Archer and Glenn Close with the former being "appalled" the change and bursting into tears when hearing the news and the latter have doubts about re-shooting the film's ending because she believed the character would "self-destruct and commit suicide."[19] Lyne initially refused to change the ending until Lansing offered him an additional $1.5 million salary to shoot it while Dearden reluctantly accepted writing the new ending believing the film would be a bigger hit if changed.[20][21][22]
Close initially refused to do the reshoots and fought against the change for two weeks before eventually giving in on her concerns and filming the new sequence after William Hurt convinced her to do it.[19][5] 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."[7]
While Lyne has stood by the theatrical ending believing it was a "good idea", both Dearden and Close have continued to express their dismay over it believing the film should've stuck with its original ending.[23] In 2010, during a cast reunion interview, Close shared that she "never thought of [her character] as a villain,"[24] stating that: "I wasn't playing a generality. I wasn't playing a clich. I was playing a very specific, deeply disturbed, fragile human being, whom I had grown to love."[7] In 2014, Dearden penned a piece for The Guardian stating that while he does not regret writing the story, he does express his regret for the theatrical ending believing it to be sexist and the way Alex was portrayed in it stating that he didn't want to make her a monster but rather "a sad, tragic, lonely woman, holding down a tough job in an unforgiving city." When adapting his script to the stage, he opted to lean away from making her a villain and more a tragic figure.[25]
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.[26]
A Special Collector's Edition of the film was released on DVD in 2002.[27] Paramount released Fatal Attraction on Blu-ray Disc on June 9, 2009.[28] 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.[29] Paramount released the film on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray in the U.S. on September 13, 2022.[30]
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.[32] In the United Kingdom, it grossed a record 2,048,421 in its opening week and spent ten weeks at number one.[33] In Australia, it was the first non-Australian film to gross A$2 million in its opening week, second to Crocodile Dundee.[34] Fatal Attraction eventually became the highest-grossing film worldwide in 1987.[35]
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