FATAL ATTRACTION: 1987 (Gary and I saw it on Paramount+) For Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas), life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth (Anne Archer), and has a loving daughter. But, after a casual fling with a sultry book editor named Alex (Glenn Close), everything changes. Jilted by Dan, Alex becomes unstable, her behavior escalating from aggressive pursuit to obsessive stalking. Dan learns the consequences of breaking the bonds of familial fidelity and loyalty. The movie had a powerful effect on the over-30 generation -- the people who made love, not war, and are now making mortgage payments. The Washington Post article: “The Fallout from Fatal Attraction,” by Stephanie Mansfield, says something about that powerful effect. More than 36 years ago Mansfield writes, “Forget Bork. Forget Casey's Confession. The hottest debate in Washington these days is over Fatal Attraction, the Michael Douglas-Glenn Close film that explores the chilling consequences of an extramarital affair gone amok.” She also quotes a bartender at a local DC watering hole, who said, "I haven't heard anybody talking about anything else." He has noticed women discussing the act of revenge taken by Close against the married Douglas. “I've overheard more than one woman saying, 'God, I've felt like doing that." Even the co-producer, Stanley Jaffe, was amazed at the intense reaction to Fatal Attraction. It was nominated for an Oscar as Best Picture, but at the 90th Oscars it was virtually ignored.  Michael Douglas won Best Actor, but he won for Wall Street which came out the same year. We liked the film the second time around, and I said to Gary, “They don’t make movies like that anymore!” He agreed. GRADE A