Top Five Movies in which Michael Douglas Portrays a Man Being Victimized (or Thinks He’s Being Victimized) by a Woman
by Ernie on 05/06/09 at 2:50 pm
5. Fatal Attraction (1987): A happy family man engages in a weekend of debauchery with a woman who turns out to be crazy, and who stalks and harasses him, threatening him and everything he holds dear, including his daughter’s pet rabbit.
4. Basic Instinct (1992): A police officer is teased, tantalized, and seduced by a predatory beautiful woman who, it turns out, is a serial killer. He’s also in a messy relationship with his psychologist.
3. Falling Down (1993): A middle-aged, divorced, unemployed white guy engineer is mad as hell and is not going to take it anymore.
2. Disclosure (1994): A guy passed over for an expected promotion in favor of a woman who is his former lover. Then she becomes his new boss and sexually harasses him relentlessly. If he doesn’t defeat her, he’ll lose everything he has.
1. The War of the Roses (1989): One day his wife tells him she wants a divorce because she doesn’t love him. He proceeds to try to get her back via manipulation, harassment, humiliation, and violence, and she begins to respond in kind, with threats and violence escalating.
