Word: lyne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Betty (Heather Gunn) says, "you can't believe everything you hear," and most of the people Charlie (Jon Blackstone) meets have something to hide. Meat-packing heiress Catherine Simms (Brodie Fisher), overzealous building inspector Owen Musser (Steve Lyne), and even the saintly Reverend David Lee (Jon Finks), Catherine's fiance, reveal their secrets in his presence, thinking he won't understand...
...they leave the movie with golden word of mouth. "I saw a lot of couples looking at each other sideways as they walked out," says Jim Stegall, 35, a Miami ad salesman. "The 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...
...Meyer rewrote some of the scenes involving Dan's family, which Paramount executives had thought insufficiently sympathetic.) Michael Douglas was in on the project early, but Close arrived only after 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...
...preview audiences. Their response was positive except for the ending. In that version, Alex committed suicide to the strains of Madame Butterfly and left Dan's fingerprints on the knife, thus framing him as her murderer. Ironic, Hitchcockian, certainly fatalistic and pretty darned Japanese -- but not satisfying. Says Lyne: "It was like having two hours of foreplay and no orgasm...
...bark when Alex breaks into the Gallagher house? Why can't Dan hear the final struggle a floor above him, and why does the bathroom tile floor leak water?) The threat to Ellen's pet rabbit can be smelled three reels away from payoff; that hare is high. Lyne's visual style, with its grab bag of slick thrills and cheap tricks, is clever but unoriginal -- hack chic. And you needn't be a critic to get restless during the longueurs of the film's first hour. Just listen to the crowd. Until Fatal Attraction removes its mask of psychological...