Obsession
Summary:
Love never dies in Brian De Palma's psychological thriller, though money certainly complicates matters. Rich New Orleans real estate developer Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) lost his beloved wife Elizabeth (Genevieve Bujold) and their daughter during a botched kidnap rescue, after he chose to let the police try to free them instead of paying the ransom. Sixteen years later,... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Cliff Robertson - (Michael Courtland)
Geneviève Bujold - (Sandra Portinari)
Geneviève Bujold - (Elizabeth Courtland)
John Lithgow - (Robert La Salle)
Sylvia "Kuumba" Williams - (Maid)
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Review:
Although film critic-turned-screenwriter Paul Schrader intended Obsession as a reworking of both Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and Yasujiro Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon (1962), director Brian De Palma plays up the Hitchcock legacy in style and eeriness. Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography gives the New Orleans and Florence loc... Continue >>
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