Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Please don't spend money on this.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It is the ultimate victim gets revenge movie. It is also a brilliant example of a good person and bad person and how they make decisions. She settles for nothing less than the truth from him and it is so satisfying. Absolutely delicious. This and Burning Bed put her in the Oscar category for me. No make-up or pretty Farrah here. This was bare all and it was brilliant. Love her and sad that she is gone.

A sexual assault victim manages to escape from her attacker, but leaves her purse behind. Worried that he may finish what he started, she contacts the police but they are unable to help.Her worst fears are realised when, alone in the house, her attacker visits and attempts to assault her once more. Circumstances allow her not only to resist the attack, but to turn the tables and lock him away. And this is where the situation really begins to escalate. Does she release him and risk another attack, or does she go for the eye for an eye route....Based on a stage play (and clearly shows) the film tries hard to get a message across, but I feel that a stage production would carry the message a little further.Fawcett and Russo are great in their respective roles, but as soon as the secondary characters become involved, it turns almost farcical with it's narrative.One starts drinking heavily and becomes the whiner of the pack, the other tries to play doctor, but only escalates the situation, and the element of the terrible dilemma that is placed on the three becomes almost laughable.If it was just Fawcett and Russo in one setting, this could have been one of the most tense thrillers to be released in 1986, instead it feels more like a late night edition of one of your favourite soaps.It's not a terrible film by any means, it's just that the third act takes any intensity away that the first two did...

One of the previous reviewers wrote, "Beginning with her being enticingly clad in a thin robe, thus taking away from the serious character Faucett is applicably portraying"... This is simply the reviewers inability to comprehend fashion of an era and its importance. Fashion and Faucett following the early 80's poster girl in her shorter" jean shorts and classy blouses. The Movies of the 80's; What could be more timeless than the birth of an era that captures* far more elements of culture in such a spawnling*. ..."Extremities" alike other dramas and non-dramas, captures the revel of The Triumph, the clad robe, the jean shorts, the visual and non-visual personal dialogue all wrapped up into one.

Having looked at some of the other comments here, I have a main complaint with this presentation. The two primary characters are attractive in their own ways - the beautiful "victim," and the handsome, obviously extremely "off-center," blue-collar protagonist (if just short of "totally-deranged") - take turns beating the hell out of each other, sort of like a Caucasian Kabuki scenario.This is all right, and this is, of course, mainly a "turning-the-tables" story. However, my referenced complaint is that I believe the director got caught-up in his desire to display Farrah's well-known and obvious physical attributes. Beginning with her being enticingly clad in a thin robe, and with a number of scenes displaying more than needed for any dramatic effect - while immensely pleasing to the eyes, these distract from the poignancy level of the drama.Her roommates I'm certain give performances as written and directed - however, their respective skepticism and histrionic babbling and sobbing, don't ring true -- based upon Farrah's previous experience with this guy, the obvious evidence of his having come to their premises with only the worst of intentions, and that she would have absolutely no grounds to be exaggerating what has occurred.But this is a film and story, compelling as much in spite of, as because of, the director's work.