Fear Character: Nicole Walker Year: 1996 Release Date April 12, 1996 Directed By: James Foley Screenwriter: Christopher Crowe Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating R Cast Highlights: ...Mark Wahlberg ...Alyssa Milano ...William Petersen Filming Locations: Mercer Island, Washington, USA Playland Amusement Park, Pacific National Exhibition Grounds, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Seattle, Washington, USA

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Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon) is a good 16-year old girl who comes from a decent upper-middle-class family. When she and her best friend, Margo (Alyssa Milano), go out to a party one night, Nicole meets the handsome and mysterious David (Mark Wahlberg), who she ends up getting together with. After a couple of weeks, Nicole realises that David is becoming very possessive, jealous and even violent. When Nicole ends up breaking up with David, he's obviously not happy about this and does everything to try and get her back and when that doesn't work, it leads to nasty consequences.

• Reese and Mark Wahlberg dated in real life. • Reese failed her film class at Stanford because she had to do a press junket for the film. • Reese considers this film her rock-bottom. She thinks that it is misogynistic and overall not a rewarding experience.

• "Dad, you're looking at me like you didn't know who I was or something." • "No dad, you're allowed to do whatever you wanna do. I'm the one who has to ask permission to breathe. Can I go to school now?" • "Every time I go out with him, I feel like I should be paid for baby-sitting." • "I'll apologise to her when she apologises to me for calling me a slut." • "He never has to show off the way other guys do. Then all of a sudden he turns into a monster." • "This may come as a big shock to you but every move I make does not have to do with you. Turns out I'm living my own life." • "The fact that you can stand there and act cool and fine, as if nothing ever happened. That's what scares me the most about you." • "Everybody says one thing and then does another."

"I did my horror film and it was not an experience I care to repeat... It had nothing to do with Mark. All that screaming and cowering and being tormented is not fulfilling." "I think a lot of girls are dealing with these kind of abusive, violent, scary relationships, and I thought it was a really timely piece, addressing an issue that's not really popular in American cinema." "Fear was the straw that broke my back. That was the period where I wasn't challenging myself. I was taking really boring - I would venture to say even misogynistic - roles. Women who weren't exactly walking intellects."