Fear (1996 film)

Fear is a 1996 American romantic psychological thriller directed by James Foley who coscripted without credit and written by Christopher Crowe. It was originally titled No Fear, without bearing any connection to the samenamed line of sporting apparel. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, William Petersen, Alyssa Milano and Amy Brenneman. Described by producer Brian Grazer as Fatal Attraction for teenscitation needed a variation in which Wahlberg has the Glenn Close role, Witherspoon is in Michael Douglas, and Petersen is in Anne Archers, the film is an intimacy thriller, a film subgenre which became highly successful in the 1990s. It revolves around an uppermiddle class Seattle family whose seemingly perfect, yet humdrum existence is threatened, when their teenage daughter Witherspoon begins dating an attractive and mysterious young man Wahlberg, much to her fathers Petersen chagrin.

Nicole Walker Reese Witherspoon is a fairly innocent teenager with a rebellious streak. Having been kicked out of her mothers house, she now lives in the suburbs of Seattle with her wellmeaning but overbearing father Steven William Petersen and his new family second wife, Laura Amy Brenneman and Toby Christopher Gray, Lauras preteen son from her first marriage. At a rave with best friend Margo Masse Alyssa Milano, Nicole meets David McCall Mark Wahlberg, who is part of the same group of friends as the guy Margo is with. Though he has borderline personality disorder and antisocial features, she is swept off her feet by his sweet, polite nature. When Steven meets David, he mistrusts him immediately it does not help matters when Nicole violates her curfews to spend more time with David. Eventually, while Steven and Laura are on a business trip, Nicole and David sleep together at her home, flagrantly disobeying a house rule about unsupervised guests. One day, David scares Nicole by assaulting her friend Gary Rohmer Todd Caldecott upon seeing them hug each other. He shoves Nicole to the ground when she tries to stop him, giving her a black eye. Nicole ends things with David, leaving him crushed, but her fathers nowintense opposition to David paradoxically drives her to accept Davids apologies. Steven suspiciously checks into Davids background and learns that David spent his early life with various foster families, until getting arrested or institutionalized. When David turned 18, he was released from foster care.Steven confronts David on a street corner and tells him to leave Nicole alone. However David spins the encounter against Steven, making it look like Steven punched him, gaining the sympathy of Nicole who is driven further away from her father and deeper into Davids arms. One evening, Nicole is invited by David to a party at his friend Logan Tracy Fraims house. She declines at first but, after a fight with her dad, reconsiders and drives over alone to surprise Da

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