Fatal Attraction 🎥 1987 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Dan Gallagher is an attorney from Manhattan. While his wife, Beth, and daughter, Ellen, are away visiting Beth’s family, he has an affair with Alex Forrest, an editor for a publishing company who begins to cling to him. Dan reluctantly spends the following day with Alex, but when he ends their affair, she cuts her wrists. Dan helps her and leaves in the morning. Alex comes to Dan’s office to apologize, but he declines her invitation to a performance of Madame Butterfly, her favorite opera. She continues to call him at his office until he informs his secretary that he will no longer take her calls.

Alex insists that Dan meet her and tells him she is pregnant, arguing that he must take responsibility. After Dan changes their phone number, Alex meets Beth, pretending to be interested in buying their apartment. That night, Dan goes to Alex’s apartment to confront her and they get into a scuffle. After the Gallaghers move to Bedford, Alex sends a tape recording of herself delivered to him, which is full of verbal abuse. She stalks him, pours acid onto his car and follows him home that evening. The sight of his happy family through their window makes her vomit. Dan approaches the police to file a restraining order, claiming it is for a client.

The lieutenant informs him that he cannot violate Alex’s rights without probable cause, and that the client must own up to his adultery. When the Gallaghers return home, they discover Alex has boiled Ellen’s pet rabbit on their stove. Dan confesses the affair and Alex’s pregnancy to Beth. Enraged, Beth orders him to leave. Dan calls Alex to say Beth knows about the affair. Beth takes the phone and tells Alex that she will kill her if Alex comes near their family again.

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