Fatal Attraction

film by Lyne [1987]

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  • Glenn Close
    In Glenn Close

    …psychopathic temptress in the thriller Fatal Attraction and as the scheming Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons.

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Douglas

  • Michael Douglas
    In Michael Douglas: Noteworthy acting roles

    …most memorable roles was in Fatal Attraction (1987), in which he portrayed a family man terrorized by a woman (memorably portrayed by Glenn Close) with whom he has an adulterous affair. In the same year, Douglas delivered an Oscar-winning performance as a ruthless, morally empty financier in Wall Street (1987).…

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femme fatale

  • The quintessential film noir femme fatale
    In femme fatale

    …played by Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction (1987) and Demi Moore in Disclosure (1994), she’s a vindictive, sexually voracious, career woman. The femmes fatales played by Pam Grier in Foxy Brown (1974), Anne Parillaud in La Femme Nikita (1990), and Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, and

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Gwynne

  • The Munsters
    In Fred Gwynne

    >Fatal Attraction (1987), and he won particular notice for his performances in the horror film Pet Sematary (1989) and the comedy My Cousin Vinny (1992).

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