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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
Bernard Herrmann. 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 ...
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Obsession (1976) Obsession (1976) Obsession (1976) View more photos ... Rated: 4/4 Apr 24, 2015 Full Review Clancy Sigel The Spectator Obsession is a laughably bad film. So bad, in fact, that it ...
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- Brian De Palma
- PG
- Cliff Robertson
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.
Jun 25, 2009 · Obsession (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Ponchartrain Memorial Park 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.
