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Aka: Affairs of the Heart
Happily married New York lawyer Dan Callagher has an affair with his colleague Alex, and the two enjoy a love weekend while Dan's wife and kid are away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she will stop at nothing to have him for herself. Just how far will she go to get what she wants?.
Op een zakelijke receptie ontmoet de getrouwde Dan Gallagher de aantrekkelijke Alex Forrest. Als zij elkaar later weer tegenkomen tijdens hun werk, is de aantrekkingskracht zo groot dat zij al gauw met elkaar in bed belanden. Dan voelt zich schuldig ten opzichte van zijn gezin over het slippertje en hij probeert de situatie achter zich te laten door met Alex te breken. Maar Alex wil dit niet accepteren en begint Dan en zijn gezin lastig te vallen. Dit wordt van kwaad tot erger en een escalatie kan niet uitblijven.
While his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter are out of town, successful attorney Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) has a one-night stand with Alex Forrest (Glenn Close), the publishing executive he has just met. He has no idea what he's getting into. Immediately after the encounter, Dan wants to put the experience behind him, but Alex refuses to let go of their relationship. Driven to madness by his rejection, she turns to violently harassing both Dan and his family. This terrifying morality play, which takes the consequences of infidelity to new heights of horror, became one of 1987's biggest box-office successes. A...
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cademy Award Nominations: 6, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress--Glenn Close, Best Supporting Actress--Anne Archer, Best (Adapted) Screenplay.
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This video is not going to be ignored. As part of our Reunions Issue (on stands this week), we rejoined one of the big screen’s greatest romantic couples — that is, if violent erotomania and boiled household pets are your idea of romantic. Twenty-four years after the release of Fatal Attraction , a.k.a. the movie that saved a million marriages, Glenn Close and Michael Douglas reunited at our photo shoot and discussed their experiences working on the film, including Close’s nervous first days on the set as the obsessive Alex Forrest, the divergent original ending, and that infamous bunny scene.
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