WITH: Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Faye Dunaway, Oliver Platt, Steven Weber
PLOT: Advertising exec Hutton gets a hard-working, sexy temp (Boyle) to help him vie for an important promotion, unfortunately she turns out to be Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
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Not actually as vulgar and stupid as you'd expect a bottom of the barrel 'bitch from hell' thriller to be, which is a shame as what you'd imagine is much more enjoyable than this slightly embarassed thing. It dutifully lays out the most tedious, obvious thriller structure you can imagine, then lays there dead as ridiculous plot twists and holes pile on to no effect. The film's body count is bizarrely high, Boyle offing company men every few minutes, and no-one even gets suspicious until they think a company recipe has been leaked! The bitch from hell herself is played by Boyle as a vacuously pouty, ambitious enigma, and in tandem with the thoughtless plotting provides her no real moments of evil (We don't really see her doing anything bad or sexy, it's just implied that she does). Maybe worth watching for some funny details, such as how lazily telegraphed some deaths are ("Agh, a bee, get it away I'm fatally allergic!!"). Probably not though.
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