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FATAL ATTRACTION (1987) w/ Intro by Jessa Crispin, author of “What Is Wrong With Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything”
July 29 : 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Join us as we welcome Jessa Crispin, author, podcaster, and intrepid social critic who has written one of the most anticipated books of 2025, WHAT IS WRONG WITH MEN: PATRIARCHY, THE CRISIS OF MASCULINITY, AND HOW (OF COURSE) MICHAEL DOUGLAS FILMS EXPLAIN EVERYTHING, who will introduce perhaps the quintessential work in Michael Douglas’ oeuvre, 1987’s controversial erotic thriller Fatal Attraction.
Stylish and sexy, Fatal Attraction took audiences to terrifying new heights with its thrilling story of a casual encounter gone terribly awry. This box-office smash was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Adrian Lyne). Michael Douglas plays Dan Gallagher, a New York attorney who has a tryst with seductive Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) while his wife (Anne Archer) is away. Dan later shrugs off the affair as a mistake and considers it over. But Alex won’t be ignored. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever…even if it means destroying Dan’s family to keep him.
Crispin’s book is a hilarious, ambitious work of trenchant cultural criticism that traces the origins of today’s crisis of masculinity through the films of Michael Douglas! At 7 pm, Jenna will be giving a talk and signing books at our next door neighbor, The Heavy Anchor. At 9 pm, she’ll pop on over to Arkadin to introduce the deliriously entertaining though wildly problematic FATAL ATTRACTION!
“The most surprising thing about Jessa’s prescient, rigorous, and sneakily hilarious What Is Wrong with Men, is how quickly and easily (and, for me, shamefully) she shifted my ‘Michael Douglas explains the modern man? Really?’ skepticism to ‘Get out of my brain!’ and then to ‘Wait . . . am I Michael Douglas?'” —Damon Young, author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker
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