PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Paramount
Producers: Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
Unit Production Manager: Christopher Cronyn
Re-Shoots Unit Production Manager: Robert E. Warner (uncredited)

SCRIPT
Script: James Dearden

DIRECTION
Director: Adrian Lyne
Assistant Directors: Robert V. Girolami, Jane Paul, Christopher Stoia

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Howard Atherton
Camera Operator: Craig Haagensen
Re-Shoots Camera Operator: Michael Stone (uncredited)
Assistant Camera: Vinnie Gerardo
Focus Puller: Tom Krueger
Stills: Andrew D. Schwartz
Cameras and Lenses: Panaflex
Lab: Technicolor

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editors: Michael Kahn, Peter E. Berger
Negative Cutting: Reel People Inc

MUSIC
Music: Maurice Jarre; Giacomo Puccini (from Madame Butterfly); Johann Pachelbel (Partie in G)
Songs: Ramon Rodriguez (Sabino); Burt Bacharach, Hal David (Alfie); Edward Heyman, Victor Young (When I Fall in Love)
Songs Performed By: Santiago Ceron (Sabino); Bill Evans Trio (When I Fall in Love)
Opera Performed By: Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Christa Ludwig
Music Performed By: Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra
Additional Music Arranged By: Hideaki Shibata
Orchestrator: Maurice Jarre
Music Editor: Dan Carlin Sr
Music Recordist: Joel Moss
Music Recorded At: Record Plant Scoring

SOUND
Sound Recordists: Les lazarowitx, Vito Ilardi
Boom Operator: Linda Murphy
Re-Recordists: Terry Porter, David J. Hudson, Mel Metcalfe
Supervising Sound Editors: Alan Robert Murray, Robert Henderson
Sound Editor: David Horton, Bruce Lacey, Nicholas Korda
Foley: Taj Soundworks, John Roesch, Ellen Heuer, Greg Orloff

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Richard Dean
Hair: Lyndell Quiyou
Costume Designer: Ellen Mirojnick
Womens Costumer: Danajean Cicerchi
Men's Costumer: William Campbell

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Effects Contact Lenses: Clive R. Kay
Slashed Wrist Effect: Michael R. Thomas (uncredited)

VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles and Opticals: Cinema Research Corporation

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Mel Bourne
Art Director: Jack Blackman
Set Decorator: George DeTitta
Set Dresser: Gerry DeTitta
Property Master: Tony Saccio
Key Construction Grip: George Gartland
Art Department Coordinator: Sylvia Trapanese
Scenic Artist: Michael Zansky
Title Designer: Dan Curry

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Renata Stoia
Production Accountant: Jane Tsighis
Assistant Accountant: Susan Towner
Production Office Coordinator: Juliette Steyning-Brown
Production Assistants: Dane Chapin, Nitchell Kapner, Janice Leibowitz, Sancha Mandy, Kay Rouse, Pia Salk, Frank Serrano, Doug Zimmerman

LOCATIONS
Locations: Mt Kisco, New York, USA; New York City, New York, USA; Ossining, New York, USA; Rye Playland, Rye, New York, USA; Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York, USA
Location Manager: Kenneth Haber
Location Assistant: Tim Tyler

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: David R. Ellis
Stunts: David R. Ellis, Freddie Hice, Annie Ellis, Janet Brady, Steve M. Davison, Laurie Shephard

CASTING
Casting: Risa Bramon, Billy Hopkins
Extras Casting: Navarro Bertoni Casting

CAST
Michael Douglas (Dan Gallagher
Glenn Close (Alex Forrest)
Anne Archer (Beth Gallagher)
Ellen Hamilton Latzen (Ellen Gallagher)
Stuart Pankin (Jimmy)
Ellen Foley (Hildy)
Fred Gwynne (Arthur)
Meg Mundy (Joan Rogerson)
Tom Brennan (Howard Rogerson)
Lois Smith (Martha)
Mike Nussbaum (Bob Drimmer)
J.J. Johnston (O'Rourke)
Michael Arkin (police lieutenant)
Sam Coppola (Fuselli)
Eunice Prewitt (receptionist)
Jane Krakowski (Christine)
Justine Johnston (real estate agent)
Mary Joy (Teacher)
Christine Farrell (teacher)
Marc McQue (Chuck)
James Eckhouse (man in Japanese restaurant)
Faith Geer (nurse)
Carol Schneider (waitress)
David Bates (executive)
Anna Levine (secretary)
Alicia Perusse (Ellen's friend)
Christopher Rubin (lawyer)
Thomas Saccio (bartender)
Greg Scott (bar patron)
Chris Manor (doorman)
Jonathan Brandis, Joe Chapman, Judi M. Durand, Lillian Garrett, J.D. Hall, Barbara Harris, Barbara Iley, Angelo Bruno Krakoff, Carlo Steven Krakoff, Amy Lyne, David McCharen, Larry Moss, Mio Polo, Jan Rabson, Marilyn Schreffler, Vladimir Skomarovsky, Dennis Tufano, Lynnanne Zager (party guests)

Photo Double for Michael Douglas: George Coutoupis

While his wife and kids are away for the weekend, New York lawyer Dan Gallagher has a passionate affair with one of his colleagues, Alex. But she proves reluctant to accept that it was just a fling and begins to stalk and menace Gallagher and his family, trying to terrorise him into resuming their affair.

Slick, glossy and effective it may be but Fatal Attraction never really convinces anyone that it's anything more than a big-budget slasher movie. On those terms, it succeeds as well as many of its better low budget counterparts, though the spurious attempt to justify itself as some sort of feminist tract fools no-one. Adrian Lyne works the meager plot for all the tension and suspense it can muster, and the cast are more than adequate in largely unlikable roles. Like The Silence of the Lambs (1990), Fatal Attraction is a horror film for people who don't usually watch horror films - the rest of us will have seen it all before, most notably in the far superior Play Misty For Me (1971).

Argentina
Theatrical Distributor: Argentina Video Home