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First Review: Obsessed is one of those movies best described as “a stylish thriller”: the characters are mostly young and gorgeous, with their white-collar gigs, designer duds, and fancy cars, and if there’s not much of substance to be found beneath those sleek, polished surfaces, well, who says a story must have a message to be entertaining? The comparisons to Fatal Attraction (with its jilted would-be lover going all psycho on the object of her, uh, affections) and Disclosure (with its reverse sexual harassment) are apt enough, but Obsessed is a little different. For starters, unlike the character played by Michael Douglas in Attraction, this film’s Derek Charles (Idris Elba) does little to encourage Lisa Sheridan (Ali Larter), the temp worker at his asset-management firm who gloms onto him like a lamprey sucking on its unwilling host; for another, Derek’s wife, Sharon (Beyonce Knowles), is no wallflower who stands idly and ignorantly by while her life is shredded by her hubby’s evasions and the increasingly crazed tactics of the woman who’s stalking him (it’s to the credit of director Steve Shill and screenwriter David Loughery that nothing whatsoever is made of the fact that Derek is black and Lisa is white). Still, the holes in the plot are big enough to drive several Mercedes sedans through. For one thing, Lisa’s fixation on Derek seems to come out of nowhere (if she has a past, we’re not told about it); what's more, even if Derek has broken his deal with Sharon not to have any female assistants (she was once one herself), it seems mighty extreme for her to kick him out of the house for three months simply for not coming completely clean about his mostly-innocent dealings with Lisa. Still, the film manages to make the viewer feel Derek’s helpless desperation at being targeted by this manipulative nut job, and when Sharon finally confronts her family’s tormentor at the end (“You think you’re crazy? I’ll show you crazy!”), the result is silly but somehow satisfying.
Category: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA
Runtime: 108 minutes
Rating: 3.8/10
Languages: English
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Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS
Writing by :
David Loughery - writer
Produced by:
George Flynn - associate producer
Glenn S. Gainor - executive producer
Beyoncé Knowles - executive producer
Matthew Knowles - executive producer
Damon Lee - executive producer
David Loughery - executive producer
William Packer - producer
Nicolas Stern - co-producer
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Cast:
Idris Elba - Derek
Beyoncé Knowles - Sharon
Ali Larter - Lisa
Jerry O'Connell - Ben
Bonnie Perlman - Marge
Christine Lahti - Reese
Nathan Myers - Kyle
Nicolas Myers - Kyle
Matthew Humphreys - Patrick
Scout Taylor-Compton - Samantha
Richard Ruccolo - Hank
Bryan Ross - Security Man
Nelson Mashita - Doctor
Bruce McGill - Joe Gage
Ron Roggé - Roger
George Ketsios - Hotel Clerk
Meredith Roberts - Connie
Catherine Munden - Cocktail Waitress
Dana Cuomo - Rachel
Jon Rowland - John
Janora McDuffie - Nurse
Monica Ford - Sally Sloan
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Plot: Derek Charles (Idris Elba) is the Executive Vice President of Gage Bendix and has received a recent promotion from his boss (Bruce McGill). He is happily married to Sharon (Beyoncé Knowles), who is pursuing her business degree. They have a son, Kyle. However, a new temporary worker, Lisa Sheridan (Ali Larter) begins to unnerve him. Derek's best friend and co-worker, Ben (Jerry O'Connell), reminds him to be careful because he thinks she has her eyes on him. Lisa eventually attempts to seduce him, but he repeatedly rejects her advances. Lisa becomes obsessed and begins to manipulate Derek and Sharon’s relationship, eventually becoming violent.
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