FATAL

Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) is a successful, happily married New York attorney living in Manhattan until he meets Alexandra (Alex) Forrest (Glenn Close) through business. Dan has a passionate affair with Alex when his wife, Beth (Anne Archer), and daughter, Ellen (Ellen Hamilton Latzen), are out of town for the weekend. Even though he assumed it was only a fling, she starts clinging to him.

Dan says that he must return home, and Alex attempts suicide by cutting her wrists. Dan assists her in bandaging her wrists and then departs. He believes the affair is over, yet she keeps popping up in unexpected locations to visit him. She goes to his workplace one day to apologize and ask him to see Madama Butterfly, but he declines. She then phones his office repeatedly until he informs his secretary that he will no longer take her calls. Alex then phones his house at all hours to tell him she is pregnant and intends to keep the kid. Despite his desire to avoid her, she insists that he accept responsibility. She appears at his residence (which is