She attacks Beth, and Dan rushes in to wrestle her into the bathtub, where he appears to drown her. One day, while Beth is taking a bath, Alex suddenly appears with the knife and explains her belief that Beth is obstructing her from having Dan. Beth forgives Dan after her release from the hospital, and they return home. The police search for Alex after Dan reports the kidnapping. As he releases her, she grabs a kitchen knife and lunges at him, but he disarms her and departs as she watches with a smile. Alex returns Ellen home unharmed, asking for a kiss on the cheek.ĭan forcibly enters Alex's apartment and attempts to strangle her, but stops short of killing her. In the process, she rear-ends a car stopped at an intersection, injuring herself and requiring hospitalization. Beth becomes terrified when she cannot locate Ellen and drives around frantically looking for her. Without Dan and Beth's knowledge, Alex picks up Ellen from school and takes her to an amusement park. Beth takes the phone and threatens Alex, saying she will kill her if she persists. Before he departs, Dan calls Alex to inform her that Beth knows about the affair.
Following this, Dan confesses the affair and Alex's pregnancy to Beth. Beth discovers the pot and screams in terror. Her obsession escalates when Dan approaches the police to apply for a restraining order against Alex, claiming it is "for a client." The lieutenant informs Dan that he cannot violate Alex's rights without probable cause, and that the "client" must own up to his adultery.Īt one point, when the Gallaghers are away, Alex kills Ellen's pet rabbit and puts it on their stove to boil. The sight of the family makes her sick to her stomach. She stalks him in a parking garage, pours acid on his car, damaging the engine, and follows him home one night, spying on him, Beth, and Ellen from the bushes in their yard.
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She has a tape recording of herself delivered to him, which is full of verbal abuse. In response, she says, "I will not be ignored."ĭan relocates his family to Bedford, but this does not dissuade Alex. Later that night, Dan goes to Alex's apartment to confront her, and they get into a scuffle. After he changes his home phone number, Alex shows up at his apartment, which is for sale, and meets Beth while feigning interest as a buyer. Alex invites Dan to speak with her gynecologist to confirm that she is pregnant. Dan arrives and Alex informs him that she is pregnant and intends to keep the baby, arguing that Dan must take responsibility. Alex continues to call him at his office until he informs his secretary that he will no longer take her calls.Īlex calls Dan in the middle of the night and insists that he meet with her later that evening. Although Dan thinks the affair is forgotten, Alex shows up at his office to apologize for her behavior and invites him to a performance of Madame Butterfly. Dan helps her bandage the cuts, stays with her overnight to ensure she is all right, and leaves in the morning. When he tries to leave again, Alex cuts her wrists in a move to manipulate him into not only staying but saving her. Initially, both of them understood it to be just a fling, but Alex begins to cling to him.Īfter leaving abruptly in the middle of the night, Dan reluctantly spends the following day with Alex at her request. While his wife, Beth, and daughter, Ellen, are out of town for the weekend, Dan has an affair with Alex. His work leads him to meet Alexandra "Alex" Forrest, an editor for a publishing company. At the 60th Academy Awards, it received six nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (for Close), Best Supporting Actress (for Archer), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing.ĭaniel "Dan" Gallagher is a successful and happily married lawyer from Manhattan. The film became a huge box office success, grossing $320 million against a $14 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1987 worldwide.
It received positive reviews from critics, but generated controversy at the time of its release. Starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer, the film centers on a married man who has a brief but torrid affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and becomes obsessed with him.įatal Attraction was released on September 18, 1987, by Paramount Pictures. 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.
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