Chloe (2010)

A wife (Julianne Moore) suspects her husband (Liam Neeson) of infidelity and hires a call girl (Amanda Seyfried) to seduce him to see if he is capable of cheating. But it quickly turns into a darkly erotic labyrinth of deceit, manipulation, erotic fantasies and danger. Based on the French film NATHALIE and directed by Atom Egoyan (THE SWEET HEREAFTER). The film received mixed notices but I think the critics misunderstood it. Perhaps they were expecting an erotic thriller or another FATAL ATTRACTION which this isn't though to be fair there were several times I thought they were going the FATAL ATTRACTION route and the film's last 15 minutes do touch FATAL ATTRACTION territory. But CHLOE is an incisive look at jealousy and obsession and how it haphazardly turns a family's routine life into a nightmare. Neeson has precious little to do here and his character isn't all that interesting. The film belongs to its two female leads. Some will no doubt look at Seyfried's character as psychotic but I felt sympathy for her. In fact, I was much more sympathetic to her character than Moore's. Mychael Danna (ICE STORM) wrote the excellent score. With Max Thieriot as Moore and Neeson's son.