It stars Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried in the title role.
At a restaurant, Catherine encounters a young woman named Chloe and realizes she is a call girl.
Chloe brings the test results to Catherine's office, where she meets Michael and flirts with him.
Upset by this, Catherine leaves and meets with Chloe again at a hotel, where she asks how David touches her while undressing her.
After having an amazing time with Chloe, Catherine gets home very late, leading David to ask if she has been unfaithful.
[8] Producer Jason Reitman helped persuade Amanda Seyfried to star in this film.
[9] Seyfried accepted the role of Chloe after a friend of hers withdrew from consideration due to discomfort with the nudity.
[10] Julianne Moore described Seyfried as a "very dependable" acting partner and claimed that they were largely comfortable with the intimacy in the film.
In describing her view of Catherine's relationship with Chloe, Moore noted "an emotional quality to their intimacy that has to do with their conversation and their basic receptivity to one another.
Fontaine also said that she was not happy with Nathalie... because the two lead actresses of the film objected to her original intention for a lesbian relationship to develop between their characters.
Erin Cressida Wilson was chosen, in part because of her experience writing erotic films such as Secretary (2002).
In the film, Chloe's scene in the greenhouse was decorated with a lot of leaves and patterns on the clothes she wore, which could reflect some of her inner unrest.
[22] Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group paid a low seven-figure sum to acquire the United States distribution rights of Chloe,[18][23] and the group opened this film in limited theatrical release in the United States on March 26, 2010 through Sony Pictures Classics.
[29] Amanda Seyfried's performance in this film also helped her to gain industry acclaim and become considered for more roles.
The site's consensus is that "Despite its promising pedigree and a titillating premise, Chloe ultimately fails to deliver the heat—or the thrills—expected of a sexual thriller.
"[4] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three and a half out of four stars and wrote: "It's not the kind of movie that depends on the certainty of an ending.
"[36] Todd McCarthy of Variety gave the film a mixed review: "Sexual suspicion and game-playing spiral down from the exotically intriguing to outright silliness in Chloe.
"[20] Anthony Lane of The New Yorker compared the film to the French original: "The movie--directed by Atom Egoyan, who should know better--is closely adapted from Nathalie..., a French film of 2004, with Gérard Depardieu and Emmanuelle Béart, but what seemed like standard practice for Parisians comes across here as unsmiling porno-farce″.