Backlash Over ‘Single White Female’ Remake Casting
Single White Female was originally released in 1992, during the peak era for erotic psychological thrillers such as Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction, and starred Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The film, based on the 1990 novel, SWF Seeks Same by John Lutz, focused on a woman (Fonda) who breaks up with her boyfriend and decides to rent out a room in her apartment. Soon after taking in a tenant (Leigh), she reconciles with her lover, leading to some unsettling changes in her new lodger. The movie was a box office success, but in the grand scheme of things, it isn’t a movie that people tend to remember without a little push.