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Obsession is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, and John Lithgow. The screenplay was written by Paul Schrader, from a story by De Palma and Schrader. Bernard Herrmann provided the film's soundtrack before his death in 1975.
- $1.4 million (estimated)
- George Litto
Sep 13, 1976 · Obsession: Directed by Brian De Palma. With Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow, Sylvia Kuumba Williams. A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.
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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Brian De Palma
- 1976-09-13
Brian De Palma's "Obsession" is an overwrought melodrama, and that's what I like best about it. There's no doing this sort of thing halfway, and De Palma knows it: We get gloomy vistas down wet Italian streets, and characters running toward each other in slow motion, and low-angle shots of tombs, and romantic music breaking suddenly into discordant warnings, and -- best of all -- a surprise ...
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Synopsis. In 1959, Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson), a New Orleans real estate developer, has his life shattered when his wife Elizabeth (Geneviève Bujold) and young daughter Amy are kidnapped. The police strongly recommend that he provide the kidnappers with shredded blank paper instead of the demanded ransom, and he agrees to the plan.
Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) is a husband and father whose wife, Elizabeth (Geneviève Bujold), and daughter, Amy (Wanda Blackman), have been kidnapped. When a rescue attempt fails ...
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- Brian De Palma
- PG
- Cliff Robertson
Released in the late summer of 1976, more than a year since the end of production due to Columbia Pictures minor objections to some of the film's controversial themes and motifs, Brian De Palma's psychological thriller Obsession achieved solid box office results and was welcomed by a mixed reaction from the critics.
Jun 25, 2009 · Movie Clip. TV Reporter in 1959 begins director Brian De Palma's sequence covering 16 years, as Courtland (Cliff Robertson) loses his wife and daughter, with Bernard Hermann music, in Obsession, 1976. LaSalle (John Lithgow) delivers Courtland (Cliff Robertson) to the church in Florence where he first sees the dead ringer (Genevieve Bujold) for ...
