Michael Douglas spent the late 80s and early 90s playing flawed white men. In the 1989 black comedy The War Of The Roses, he was a wealthy, self-centered middle-aged yuppie divorcing his equally loathsome wife. He’s a jerk, but so is she. Kathleen Turner co-starred as his spouse, which was their third movie together.
Turner is the opposite of Douglas as an actor. Sultry. Cool. Glamourous. Certain and formidable.
Douglas won an Oscar for portraying a money-grubbing multi-millionaire rogue in the slicked-back hair stock broker drama Wall Street. That same year, 1987, Douglas played a husband who cheats on his wife and is stalked by the woman he seduced in the moralistic thriller Fatal Attraction.