A film that bears the awful distinction of having its ending changed as a result of a preview screening. Alex (Glenn Close) originally killed herself but following audience reaction the ending was changed to the wife (Anne Archer) finishing her off with a handily found gun.
To be honest, the original ending sounded a bit crap. The husband (Michael Douglas) is charged with murder but then the wife finds the tape the psycho has made in which she threatens suicide so the wife can clear her husband. Yawn. Also any cheating husband would have gotten rid of that tape immediately - incriminating evidence.
I mean, it's bad enough having a husband cheat on you but to then attract the disturbed psycho you'd find hard to forgive.
It plays about as well as it ever did. I blame writer James Dearden. Though the scene where he comes to her apartment and attacks her and she fights back I thought worked rather well (though what the fuck was his motivation?)
'Oh, she's washing up', Q commented in one of the sex scenes.
Photographed by Howard Atherton. Edited by Michael Kahn and Peter Berger.
Lyne made eighties films that you kinda don't want to revisit: Foxes, Flashdance, 9 1/2 Weeks, Indecent Proposal, Jacob's Ladder, Lolita and Unfaithful.
Michael Douglas kept reminding me of Family Guy's Quagmire.
Also what the fuck is 'spaghetti sauce'?
One of the key words describing this film on Amazon is 'Cerebral'. I think not.
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