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Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) is a successful New York lawyer with a beautiful wife, Beth (Anne Archer), and a 6 year-old daughter who spends a weekend with a book editor, Alex Forrest (Glenn Close). As far as Dan is concerned, it's a one time thing but Alex has something more in mind, as she amply demonstrates even before the weekend is over. When he makes it clear that there is no future for them, Alex begins to seek him out, whether calling him constantly calling him at home or at work and even visiting his apartment, which is up for sale, and meeting Beth. Alex's obsession knows no bounds and she becomes increasingly violent, putting Dan's life - and that of his family's - in danger. The film opens with a beautiful, classical melody for a real piano, an elegant tribute to the relationship between Dan and Beth. Pretty woodwinds, both real and synthesized, combine with a mysterious-sounding trumpet and a synth wash in performing a long-lined melody; the theme itself is slightly reminiscent of the themes for both Witness and Dead Poets Society, with a sort of intangible, dream-like quality, and by the end of the cue it has adopted a grand, if slightly dated, sound.
