Fatal Attraction (1987)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Adrian Lyne

Escritores (WGA):

James Dearden (screenplay)
James Dearden (short film by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

18 septiembre 1987 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

On the other side of drinks, dinner and a one night stand, lies a terrifying love story.

Plot:

A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

Plot Keywords:

New York | Affair | Exhibitionist | Psycho Killer | Suspect

Premios:

Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 14 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Made me squirm

Reparto

Michael Douglas	...	Dan Gallagher
Glenn Close	...	Alex Forrest
Anne Archer	...	Beth Gallagher
Ellen Hamilton Latzen	...	Ellen Gallagher
Stuart Pankin	...	Jimmy
Ellen Foley	...	Hildy
Fred Gwynne	...	Arthur
Meg Mundy	...	Joan Rogerson
Tom Brennan	...	Howard Rogerson
Lois Smith	...	Martha
Mike Nussbaum	...	Bob Drimmer
J.J. Johnston	...	O'Rourke
Michael Arkin	...	Lieutenant
Sam Coppola	...	Fuselli (as Sam J. Coppola)
Eunice Prewitt	...	Receptionist

También conocida como:

Affairs of the Heart (USA) (original script title)
Diversion (USA) (working title)
Atracción fatal (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

119 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Singapore:M18 | Iceland:16 | South Korea:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Argentina:18 | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Ireland:18 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Peru:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Malaysia:(Banned)

Locaciones de Filmación:

400 East 14th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Compañía:

Paramount Pictures

Trivialidades:

Ranked at number 59 on Bravo's "The 100 Scariest Movie Moments" (2004) special.

Errores:

Continuidad: The time on the clock when Dan and Alex first make love.

Citas:

[first lines]
Beth Gallagher: [to Ellen] You better get going, kiddo. You're gonna be late.

Conexiones de Película:

Spoofed in "Duck Dodgers: The New Cadet/The Love Duck (#2.5)" (2004)

Banda de Sonido:

PARTIE IN G

Made me squirm

Although I found myself checking the elapsed time during this movie to get some idea of when it would end, the final scenes made me squirm with sympathetic fright for the characters.

Roger Ebert says the filmmakers ruined a perfectly good psychological thriller by attaching a "Friday the 13th" ending. The IMDb Trivia page says the movie originally had a different ending in which Glenn Close's character commits suicide and Michael Douglas' character is arrested for her murder. Ebert and most serious film lovers would likely have preferred that ending. But making profitable movies sometimes means making them unpalatable for highbrow students of film.

Nevertheless, the "flawed" film resonated with women. I have vague memories of female friends and acquaintances in the late '80s seeing "Fatal Attraction" as an example of what SHOULD happen to any man who cheats on his wife. The movie found a place in our culture for a while, and the title was a euphemism for similar happenings in real life.

One wonders how much this movie had to do with the near universal creation of "stalker laws" in the 1990s.