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Obsession|Cliff Robertson

Obsession

Cliff Robertson and GenevièVe Bujold
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Overview

In one of director Brian DePalma's (DRESSED TO KILL, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE) many cinematic tributes to Hitchcock (this one borrows from VERTIGO), Cliff Robertson portrays an American businessman whose wife and child are killed in a botched kidnap rescue effort. Years later, while in Italy, the still-distraught widower begins an affair with a woman (Genevieve Bujold) whose resemblance to his late wife is rather uncanny. The script was co-written by Paul Schrader (TAXI DRIVER, RAGING BULL).

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Brian De Palma - Director
Genevi ve Bujold
Stanley Reyes
Sylvia "Kuumba" Williams
Cliff Robertson
Geneviève Bujold
John Lithgow
Wanda Blackman
Patrick McNamara
Stanley J. Reyes
Nick Kreiger

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD (Manufactured on Demand)
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 043396385948
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Release Date: August 2011

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
Because he agrees to police suggestions that he substitute blank paper for ransom money, a businessman's wife and daughter are killed by their enraged kidnappers. Fifteen years later, the man has still not forgiven himself for what happened, and, while vacationing in Italy, he suddenly encounters a young woman who is the mirror-image of his dead wife. Is it just coincidence? Could she possibly be his daughter, somehow still alive and fully grown? The guilt-ridden husband becomes obsessed with this ghostly reincarnation, and his passionate pursuit of her leads to surprising revelations about his own past.

Notes:
Shot in Panavision.

Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- "Brian De Palma's melodrama has aged surprisingly well....Beautifully shot by Vilmos Zsigmond and with a towering score by Bernard Herrmann..." - 08/01/2011 Total Film


"[I]t's hard not to respond to the sheer single-mindedness with which De Palma treats the material as a doomy, music-driven reverie....Still quite something." - 09/01/2011 Sight and Sound

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