Fatal Attraction

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Year:	1987
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Adrian Lyne
Genre:	Femme fatale vengeance
Starring:	Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer
Rating:	4/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093010/
Tagline:	On the other side of drinks, dinner and a one night stand, lies a terrifying love story.
Favourite line:	"Why? Because I won't allow you treat me like some slut you can just bang a couple of times and throw in the garbage?"

The defining sex thriller of the eighties, this throws everything at the viewer, making for a breathless rollercoaster ride, fraught and terrifying.

Michael Douglas is a successful lawyer with a beautiful wife, a young daughter (who looks very much like a young boy, but that's besides the point) and the world at his feet. One weekend, with wifey out of town, he embarks upon an affair with the wonderfully demented Glenn Close, believing it to be a one time fling as, right from the outset, he made it clear he had no intention of leaving his family. Close's Alex seems to accept this to begin with but, gradually, it becomes apparent that she plans to claim him as her own.

Riotously over the top in both style and scope, this is a tour de force of tension.
Douglas is his usual self here; bit smarmy, bit too handsome in a not actually very handsome at all kind of way, but it is Close who is the real star turn. Portaraying lunacy with a worrying ease, hers is a study in controlled rage that intermittently bursts to the foreground, and who can ever forget the 'bunny-boiler' scene?
Though clearly influenced by Play Misty For Me, this is certainly no clone, and ups the ante considerably on that movie in terms of sheer edge of the seat mania.
A good movie.