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Actors: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Fatal Attraction |
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Dan Gallager is an upper class business executive living with his wife and 5 year old daughter in Manhattan. One evening, he and his wife, attend a book opening party attended by a writer named Alex Forrest. Dan and Alex immidiately hit it off and strike up a conversation. Later in the movie, they eventually find that they click in a sexual way, and wind up naked doing the nasty on a kitchen counter. This affair continues for a few weeks, with Dan spending the weekend at Alex's apartment while his wife and daughter are away. It is about this time that Dan begins to feel very guilty about the affair and decides to call it off. It is also this time when Alex begins to feel more than just sexual feelings for Dan and is not at all pleased that he is dropping her.
Alex will stop at nothing to keep Dan all her own, including allowing herself to get Pregnant, harrassing him at work, phoning him at all hours, pretending to be an interested buyer in their Manhattan condo, kidnapping his child from school, and following his family to their new country home in Upstate New York.
--Stephanie, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Fatal Attraction |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 80%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- hunted by killer/stalker
Kind of story:
- adultery
Criminal enemy is...
- crazed boy/girlfriend/spouse
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) long curly
Body type
- average (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- writer
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- eccentric
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) long curly
Body type
- average (woman)
unclothed?
- chest and buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Small town?
Yes
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
How many deaths in film?
- 1
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- licking
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
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