Fatal Attraction

Name: Fatal Attraction
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Released: 1987-09-18
Duration: 1 h 59 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Ellen Hamilton Latzen, Stuart Pankin

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

Fatal Attraction (1987)

Timing: 1:59 (119 min)

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Release date

1987-09-18

Country

United States

Production

Paramount

Genre

Drama, Thriller, Romance

Budget

$14 000 000

Box office

$320 145 693

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Director

Adrian Lyne

Actors

Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Ellen Hamilton Latzen, Stuart Pankin, Ellen Foley, Fred Gwynne, Tom Brennan, Lois Smith, Mike Nussbaum
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Scenario

Producer

Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing

Camera operator

Howard Atherton

Composer

Maurice Jarre

Artist

Mel Bourne

Audition

Risa Bramon Garcia, Billy Hopkins

Editing

Michael Kahn, Peter E. Berger
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Short description

For Dan Gallagher, life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth, and has a loving daughter. But, after a casual fling with a sultry book editor named Alex, everything changes. Jilted by Dan, Alex becomes unstable, her behavior escalating from aggressive pursuit to obsessive stalking. Dan realizes that his main problem is not hiding his affair, but rather saving himself and his family.

What's left behind the scenes

Miranda Richardson was considered for the lead female role.
Glenn Close still keeps the knife from this film.
Over 20 directors declined the offer to film this movie.
When agent Glenn Close first called the future film's creators to say she was interested in playing Alex, she was asked to tell the actress that she was completely unsuitable for the role. Director Adrian Lyne shared the same opinion.
During the reshooting of the finale, Glenn Close was concussed in one of the takes. At the hospital, where the actress was urgently taken, she found out she had been pregnant for several weeks. On April 26, 1988, she gave birth to a daughter – future actress Annie Stark.
The original finale showed Alex, dressed all in white, committing suicide, while Dana was arrested. The finale had to be changed after preview screenings and was reshot in July 1987.