Boiled Bunnies! Empire magazine Writer Mark Salisbury did a great oral history of the film in the October issue of the magazine. Producers saw the short film and asked Dearden to expand it into a feature length film…but as Producer Sherry Lansing said:. For good reason! Some of the Oscar-nominated script included conversations like this, which began after Douglas has an affair with Close while his wife and daughter are out of town:. You know that, Alex?
I thought it might be fun to write about movies with a mental illness theme that we might not have originally construed as such. In reality, it is a movie about an exploited mentally ill woman used by a married man to venture outside his seemingly perfect marriage. I knew little about anxiety disorders, less about psychotic disorders, and zero about personality disorders. Reducing Alex Forrest Glenn Close to a woman driven to psychosis through obsession with a married man is oversimplification.
Assuming it was a one-time thing, Dan returns home to his wife — but, for Alex, it quickly becomes apparent that their fling meant far more. She begins lurking outside his office and calling him incessantly. However, Close recently revealed that Fatal Attraction was originally supposed to have a very different ending.