Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a movie. It's part movie, part real life." Adrian Lyne, the film's director, is amazed by its reach: "The movie is almost like a living thing that feeds off the public and takes on new shape." In other words, Fatal Attraction is a monster hit...
...instant indicator of a pop phenomenon is the parodies and rip-offs it inspires. Fatal Attraction's success has already been validated by a skit on Saturday Night Live. Last week NBC aired a TV-movie thriller with the sounds- like title Dangerous Affection (originally Hit and Run); for Nov. 30, the network has scheduled a mystery called Fatal Confession (originally Father Dowling). And the title of Larry Cohen's detective movie Love You to Death was changed before release to Deadly Illusion. Perhaps, even at this moment, some literate mogul is optioning the Don Quixote epilogue, in which...
...meaning of that look was obvious: Don't even think about having an affair." Director Lyne says, "I've had men ring me up and say, 'Thanks a million, buddy, you've ruined it for us.' " A Manhattan psychoanalyst told Co-Producer Lansing, "I know the picture is a hit, because out of my seven patients, five have brought up the movie...
...Naval Attraction." In the summer-fall hit No Way Out, an officer in U.S. naval intelligence (Kevin Costner) has a dangerous love affair with the Washington mistress (Sean Young) of the Secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman). It begins as hot reckless sex in the back seat of a limo and climaxes in death and betrayal. No Way Out keeps escalating past passion into mortal power struggles, in which the guilty are forever eliminating the slightly less guilty. But the film rescores, in melodrama's high pitch, the lament of any bright woman with a healthy carnal appetite...
...Debra Winger had rejected the role and Barbara Hershey was unavailable. The film began shooting in September 1986 under Lyne's direction. Flashdance had proved that Lyne knew which buttons to push for a multimedia smash, and 9 1/2 Weeks, a flop at the U.S. box office but a hit at the video stores, showed his fascination with the theme of sexual dependency at the borderline of pain and pleasure...