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Fatal Attraction (1987) (I Love the 80's; Widescreen)

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3.3 out of 5.0 stars 3 Ratings (3 Reviews)

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    great movie

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 7, 2002 | 1 out of 1 found this Fatal Attraction (1987) review helpful

    the acting direction and suspense are all top notch.it's a must see.

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    The Thriller That Started It All

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 13, 2003

    "Fatal Attraction" is a thriller that was a turning point for the careers of Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer, and for the audience itself, telling us about the dangers of adultery, and it still rings true to this day. This movie estab...lished Michael Douglas as an impulsive nice Yuppie gone wrong (and he would do this again and again in subsequent movies, even more successfully and a step further in "Basic Instinct,' but less successfully in "Fatal Attraction" and "Basic Instinct" clones), Glenn Close as an actress with the reputation of "When I'm bad, I'm better" after years of basically playing flaccid goody-goodies, and Anne Archer as a major star with her portrayal as Douglas's sympathetic, cheated wife who would rather protect her family rather than ditch her husband who had to go into business for himself (professionally and personally at a meeting with Close while Archer and young daughter went away on a weekend to the country). Able support from veteran comic character actor Stuart Pankin as Douglas' boisterous married friend who first philanders with Close at the party where Douglas gets to meet and then flirt with her. The problems with "Fatal Attraction" was the excessive use of blood and gore to get the message where Close attempts suicide and then tries to kill Douglas and Archer. The movie also has to deal with cruelty to animals, with the, well, infamous stew prepared by Close to get Douglas to admit the truth to his wife. But it is the story, the compelling acting, and the chemistry among the three leads that made it a big smash. Today, Douglas is known as Hollywood's bad boy, Close brings versatility to good people and bad people in the very vein of Jack Nicholson, and Archer is a low-key, soft-spoken but still underused actress who plays it cool in many high-tension thrillers and always remains calm in the face of danger. Read more Less

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    Fatal Attraction

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 22, 2001

    High profile rip-off of PLAY MISTY FOR ME with Michael Douglas in the Clint Eastwood role, Glenn Close in the Jessica Walter role and Ann Archer in the Donna Mills role. Succesful lawyer Douglas has a weekend fling with mysterious colleague Close, w...ho, of course, turns out to be a wacko. Douglas frantically tries to sheild his wife and daughter from Close's increasingly psychotic antics, until a bloody final showdown in which Close is supposedly killed but comes back for one more FRIDAY THE 13TH-esque scare. Exceptionally well-made and well-performed, only lacking any shred of originality or imagination. The movie mirrors MISTY at almost every plot turn and twist (watch the two movies back to back and compare the similarities). Charges of plagiarism aside, not a moment in this movie rings true. It's a by the numbers thriller that gets more and more ludicrous as it proceeds. It makes no attempt to explore the motives behond anyone's actions. People do shocking things and have to deal with the consequences. The replacement of the original ending (in which Close kills herself and leaves behind evidence to pin her death on Douglas) with the "killer's-not-really-dead
    -she's-just-waiting-for-o
    ne-last-scare" finale is the straw that breaks the camel's back. An outrageously overrated box office smash that astounded it's audience with enough sex and violence to hide the fact that it had all been done before. The fact that this movie received an Oscar nimination for Best Picture is the only truly shocking thing about it.     Read more Less

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