Fatal Attraction (Special Collector's Edition)

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The date movie of the late 1980s, this had everyone arguing in the aisles. Does Michael Douglas deserve the unwanted attention he and his family are receiving at the hands of loony stalker Glenn Close? After a weekend extramarital affair with colleague Close, he returns home to wife Anne Archer, and Close becomes progressively angrier. You might even say she is boiling bunny mad.

Directed by Adrian Lyne, this is not your average thriller, as it garnered six Academy Award nominations. The plot is too obvious, but the dialogue rings true and the intense performances hold the story together. Anne Archer deserves kudos for side-stepping cliché as the strong but frightened wife, and Close is a scream as she chews up the scenery.

The film's original ending, which was reshot after poor preview screenings, has been added to the video release. --Rochelle O'Gorman

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PLAY MISTY FOR ME --- AGAIN.......2007-09-12

For this unaccountable box office smash, scores of actresses reportedly turned down the role of the hot-to-trot Manhattan psycho book editor who purrs at cheatin' married lawyer Michael Douglas, "Ever done it in an elevator?" Naturally, the part went to innately ladylike, highly controlled Glenn Close. Get past THAT casting implausibility --- not to mention why anyone would find Douglas so ravishing or why anyone talented would ever want to work for 9 1/2 WEEKS director Adrian Lyne --- and you'll have no trouble buying Close madly having at it with Douglas in her stainless steel sink as she smears her breasts and his face with water. Douglas's missus, Anne Archer, everyone's favorite studiedlly sensual onscreen wife, conveniently leaves town with their kid, allowing CLose to romp with Douglas in Central Park and act fascinated by his snooze-inducing monologue about how his cold father once comforted him at the opera when 'Madame Butterfly' terrified him.

Douglas must finally return to Archer, so Close slits her wrists. Alas, he saves her life and, to thank him, she turns up at his office in a full-length black leather coat, stammering, "This is terribley embarrassing" --- we heartily agree --- and proffers tickets to 'Madame Butterfly'. He declines, so Close stays home listening to Puccini while switching a table lamp on and off (certainly our favorite way of listening to operas) before telling Douglas that she's preggers. "We're going to live with this for the rest of our lives," Douglas counsels (meaning their baby, not the movie), prompting Close to get wackier, blowing up his car (don't ask) and making him tapes in which she confesses, "I feel you. I tasted you. I think you. I touch you."

Too bad she can't act him while she's at it, because, once Douglas figures out that she's stealing the movie, he clenches his teeth and pulls the hammiest faces this side of Mickey Rourke when he tries killing her in retaliation for kidnapping his daughter and hijacking her to --- what a fiend! --- an amusement park. Douglas, who gets no help form the cops but doesn't even bother to lock the front door, gets sidelined when Close and Archer duke it out, 'Psycho'-style, in the bathroom. Though Close goes crosseyed when Douglas drowns her in the tub, she then leaps out, to overact EVEN MORE in the style that actually won her, along with, Archer, Lyne, AND THE MOVIE ITSELF, an Oscar nomination. After this and the earlier 'Jagged Edge', Close looked in danger of becoming the A-budget Jamie Lee Curtis of slasher flicks, but she got out, well, almost in time.

The "director's cut" on home video offers an even sillier original finale and a Norma Desmondesque Lyne sharing with his public such riveting goodies as an ENDLESS audio tape he made of audiencces laughing and screaming while vieing his magnum opus. Talk about scary.

A truly good movie........2007-08-14

The movie was quite terrifying michael douglas and his family are the victims of an insane parasite woman (glenn close) who would just stop at nothing to get the man she's trying to steal from his wife and child. Michael douglas has mistakenly cheated on his wife and now he has to reveal a hurtful truth to his wife and try to fix his mistakes and get rid of the woman for good. Oh and by the way jacobs ladder is also a good movie too I recommend it to anyone who loves this movie adrian lyne is a brilliant director.

RIP michael douglas.

"I won't be ignored, Dan!".......2007-07-31

I love this movie. I was too young too watch it when it was first released, but as soon as I did watch it, I loved it. I also like the movie that inspired this, Play Misty for Me. There were a ton of copycat movies after this, some godd and some really bad. Whether you sympathize with Dan or not, you will be on the edge of your seat during the last half of this movie.

Fatal Attraction.......2007-07-06

Adrian Lyne's disturbing "Fatal Attraction" remains the ultimate cautionary tale for extra-marital thrill seekers. What begins as an entirely plausible drama about a one-night stand quickly morphs into a shocking psychological thriller in Lyne's hands, with Douglas turning in one of the iconic performance of the 80s. But it's Glenn Close's bestial, unhinged villainess that made this film a box-office smash. Despite a tacked-on, slasher-movie-style ending, "Attraction" picked up six Oscar nominations, including one for Best Film.

"Flashdance" director's 1987 blockbuster.......2007-04-12

FLASHDANCE director Adrian Lyne brought moviegoers this 1987 blockbuster starring Michael Douglas,Glenn Close and Anne Archer. New York lawyer Dan Gallagher(Douglas) has an affair with a colleague named Alex(Close). Dan's wife Kate(Archer) learns about the affair and is briefly pissed at him. Kate even threatened to kill Alex if she came within range of her,Dan and their young son again. Alex herself became violent in one of the last scenes,wielding a filet knife but she ends up stabbed with it,drowning in the Gallaghers' water-filled bathtub. I believe that was where Alex and Kate were fighting a duel. I remember a scene like that in 1992's THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE. Other '87 blockbusters include THREE MEN AND A BABY,LETHAL WEAPON and BEVERLY HILLS COP 2. Aside from FLASHDANCE,Lyne directed 1986's 9 1/2 WEEKS. Douglas' fans also loved him in other favorites like BASIC INSTINCT,IT'S MY TURN despite its box-office disappointment,THE IN-LAWS,THE WAR OF THE ROSES,ROMANCING THE STONE,THE JEWEL OF THE NILE,COMA,THE CHINA SYNDROME,THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT and FALLING DOWN.

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Starring: Laura Antonelli , Florinda Bolkan , Blanca Marsillach , Christina Marsillach , and Tony Musante
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