1987 · thriller · drama
Fatal Attraction
Directed by Adrian Lyne1h 59m1987
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Our read: Fatal Attraction (1987) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, extreme thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
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