Playing Happy Family – Fatal Attraction

About this episode

Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith examine how a single act of infidelity fractures the illusion of stability in an upper middle class family in Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction.

People in this episode

Hosts: Jim Groom, Michael Branson Smith

Topics covered

• infidelity
• family dynamics
• film analysis
• upper middle class
• stability

Keywords

• infidelity
• family
• Fatal Attraction
• film
• stability
• Adrian Lyne

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Adrian Lyne

Books & works: Fatal Attraction

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