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Summary: Awesome
Review: I liked the video and especially the original ending, which is now available on tape. Regarding the little girl in the movie, as someone mentioned earlier - come on, all of us weren't even sure that WAS a girl the first time we watched this movie. Maybe she was cute, but she must have been the producer's daughter or something! Why else would such a boyish girl get the role?
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Summary: The daughter is the best!!
Review: I don't know about anyone else, but I thought that the girl who played the daughter was the cutest kid I've ever seen. She has a natural acting talent, is charismatic, and freaks out impressivly well when her bunny gets boiled. And what about that part when she walks in on her parents fighting? It got my heart wrenched. Give that girl an Oscar, please!
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Summary: A whole generation talked about this one all night
Review: One of the masterpieces of its time, this movie is an almost perfectly rendered account of adultery and the agonising moral questions it raises. The plot is highly believable: a businessman whose wife goes away for the weekend has a fling with an attractive, intense and slightly neurotic woman. Who's to blame for what happens next? In the late 1980s, lots of men said it was Glenn Close's fault, and lots of women said it was Michael Douglas's fault. The movie takes sides to the extent that Close boils the rabbit, etc, but it can just as easily be interpreted as a lesson in what happens to husbands with straying eyes. Apart from an exaggerated ending, it is quite compelling to watch - probably Douglas's best ever role.
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Summary: Good but predictable.
Review: The movie was good mainly because of th acting and the action packed last half hour. However, the initial 30 minutes are very boring and there is nothing of interest. Things pick up though and Glenn Cl.ose comes off as truly deranged--the cutting of legs. However, I can 8understand her anger and she really is quite explosive during the final sequence. Michael douglas was his usual boring self and I didn't like the way he was so unffeling to Close and the baby. Anne Archer was excelllent and we could feel her concern and fear throughout the last half hour. Good film, but not great.
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Summary: Interesting but flawed 80's movie.
Review: Plot Summary: Man has affair with woman. Woman is psycho. Woman stalks man... FA is more than that though. It is typical of it's time, being flashy, simplistic and moralistic. Single women are dangerous. Wives are there to take care of the family. Men cannot be blamed for having affairs. Etc. Nonetheless, I would attest that this (along with Cocktail) are the defining films of late 80's Hollywood. The bunny scene is quite good though.
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Summary: Fatal Women
Review: Watching Fatal attraction, it is only natural and the films intent to feel sympathy towards the Gallagher family and sickness at the behaviour of the psychotic Alex Forrest. However at a second glance there is several important undertones to the way the film makers are intending you to see this film. Looking closer at the character of Alex she is a strong, independant single women. Strong female women are often seen as a threat to society and as is the case in 'Fatal Attracton', results in this character being placed in the position of psycho. After all when you actually consider the story line it is Dan Gallagher (Played by Micheal Douglas) who has been unfaithfull to his wife, got another women pregnant and yet all sympathy as the film directs you to feel lies with him and his family. This kind of story line, and the way the film is portrayed is symptomatic of hollywood films in the late 1980's where the backlash aginst feminism in cinema was rife.
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Summary: fatal attraction
Review: This movie was well made. It had a good plot and story line. I was very dissapointed in Glenn Close. I used to like her as an actress, but she played a very terrible person. I just cant beleive she would star in a movie like that. Otherwise a good movie
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Summary: Delicious
Review: A horrific account of of bipolar/borderline personality disorders, this film is guaranteed to chill the spines of men who've had to deal with crazy and obsessive women. Close is dead-on in her portrayal of an insane, clingy woman who will not leave her target alone. The dialogue is also not cliche-ridden, and is to the point and realistically simple. The other characters seem real enough, and we really do feel for the husband she's stalking. The harrassment is also well done, with each unsettling
phone call, visit, and other annoyance just adding to the
tension. This is one of Lyne's masterpieces, full of
rich color and controlled, careful direction. Fans of his intense artistic visions are also advised to get
Jacob's Ladder on DVD.
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Summary: It's a very good film, but
Review: c'mon people; it's not ready to be put on the shelf next to Citizen Kane, is it? While very well-acted (Close is great) and directed, FA does have its flaws. First, it's hard to feel a lot of sympathy for Douglas' character, who, instead of being happy with all he has (and he has a LOT), has to be a greedy pig (in other words, a lawyer) and shack up with Alex. Stupid move. Too close to home, and his wife hasn't given him any reason to wander. Second, it's even harder to feel anything for Alex, who's strait-jacket ready almost from the git-go. Third, if they're such wonderful parents, didn't the Gallaghers ever teach their child not to go with strangers? MAJOR plot hole there. In all, a highly watchable flick, but not a five-star special, sorry.
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Summary: Women, watch your perfect hubbys.
Review: A weekened fling gone horribly wrong. That is the gist of this classic. I'm telling you, anyone who doesn't like this flick must sit around watching trashy flicks that have no plot because this is a very deep, highly stylized thriller.
My favorite part is definatly the end - but if you haven't seen it, then I'm sorry, you will have to buy it or at leats rent it. For those who have seen it, it may ring a bit of Psyco - another great movie easilly catologued near this masterpeice.
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