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* {{Fanservice}}: A love scene between Dan and Beth has her in lingerie as he caresses her, with a prominent shot of her midriff and legs.

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A love scene between Dan and Beth has her in lingerie as he caresses her, with a prominent shot of her midriff and legs.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early on, Dan and Alex listen to ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' at Alex's house; Dan recalls first going to see the opera as a little boy, and how scared he was by Cio-Cio San's suicide at the end. [[spoiler: This foreshadows the film's original ending, in which Alex herself commits suicide (to the tune of ''Madame Butterfly'', no less) and frames Dan for her murder. However, this scene was cut from the final film (see "FocusGroupEnding"), so it's actually an aversion.]]

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Early on, Dan and Alex listen to ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' at Alex's house; Dan recalls first going to see the opera as a little boy, and how scared he was by Cio-Cio San's suicide at the end. [[spoiler: This foreshadows the film's original ending, in which Alex herself commits suicide (to the tune of ''Madame Butterfly'', no less) and frames Dan for her murder. However, this scene was cut from the final film (see "FocusGroupEnding"), so it's actually an aversion.]]



* GetOut: Alex screams this at Dan after he attempts to leave her apartment to go back home to his family.

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Alex screams this at Dan after he attempts to leave her apartment to go back home to his family.



* JerkassHasAPoint: Alex calls Dan out on his insistence that "I have a whole relationship with someone else", asking, "Then what the hell were you doing with me?" Later, even as her behavior gets crazier and crazier, she continues to be adamant that Dan has a legal and moral obligation to the child she's carrying. As far off the deep end as she is, she's right.

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Alex calls Dan out on his insistence that "I have a whole relationship with someone else", asking, "Then what the hell were you doing with me?" Later, even as her behavior gets crazier and crazier, she continues to be adamant that Dan has a legal and moral obligation to the child she's carrying. As far off the deep end as she is, she's right.



* KarmaHoudini: Alex in the original ending. Although [[spoiler: it looks like Beth will be able to clear her husband's name and thus foil Alex's "revenge", still, Alex is dead on her ''own'' terms, and thus can't suffer any reprisals.]]

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Alex in the original ending. Although [[spoiler: it looks like Beth will be able to clear her husband's name and thus foil Alex's "revenge", still, Alex is dead on her ''own'' terms, and thus can't suffer any reprisals.]]



* OhCrap: "Daddy? Lady's gone! Lady's gone!"

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"Daddy? Lady's gone! Lady's gone!"



* WouldHurtAChild: Alex has no problem breaking Ellen's heart by killing her pet rabbit. And although she returns Ellen unharmed, it's obvious that she wanted to terrify her parents with the very real possibility that she could have harmed her if she wanted to.

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Alex has no problem breaking Ellen's heart by killing her pet rabbit. And although she returns Ellen unharmed, it's obvious that she wanted to terrify her parents with the very real possibility that she could have harmed her if she wanted to.
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* PlotIncitingInfidelity: Sets up the plot. A happily married man's one-night-stand with a coworker comes back to haunt him when his mistress begins to stalk him and his family.
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%% StalkerWithACrush: Alex, who pursues Dan outside her her apartment, calls him on his phone continually and hangs up when his wife answers and follows him to the park, his office, his daughter's school and even his new home. It gets bad to the extent of being an alternate TropeNamer under "Bunny Boiler".

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%% * StalkerWithACrush: Alex, who pursues Dan outside her her apartment, calls him on his phone continually and hangs up when his wife answers and follows him to the park, his office, his daughter's school and even his new home. It gets bad to the extent of being an alternate TropeNamer under "Bunny Boiler".
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* STDImmunity: At a time when the AIDS crisis was kicking into high gear--as well as the myriad of other venereal diseases out there, Dan has unprotected sex with Alex, yet doesn't catch anything or even seem worried about the possibility. Granted, at the time, AIDS was only popularly considered to be a threat to gay men...it was not until the 90s where straight people started to worry about possible infection.

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* STDImmunity: At a time when the AIDS crisis was kicking into high gear--as well as the myriad of other venereal diseases out there, Dan has unprotected sex with Alex, yet doesn't catch anything or even seem worried neither of them worries about the possibility.possibility of catching something. Granted, at the time, AIDS was only popularly considered to be a threat to gay men...it was not until the 90s where straight people started to worry about possible infection.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: "YOU'RE A STUPID, SELFISH BITCH!" Said by ''[[IResembleThatRemark Alex]]'' to Beth, ''the woman she cucked.'' She also absolutely ''refuses'' to acknowledge any responsibility that she knew what she was getting into with a married man or that she did anything wrong during the affair.

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"YOU'RE A STUPID, SELFISH BITCH!" Said by ''[[IResembleThatRemark Alex]]'' to Beth, ''the woman she cucked.'' She also absolutely ''refuses'' to acknowledge any responsibility that she knew what she was getting into with a married man or that she did anything wrong during the affair.

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