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Obsession

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Obsession
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PG,1hr 38min
Genre:
Action
Released:
January 1, 1976
Director:
Brian De Palma
Distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Starring:
Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow  ...more
Synopsis: 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, Michael returns to the Tuscan church where he and Elizabeth first met, and he sees Sandra Portinari (Bujold again), the ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG 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 locations the foggy dreaminess of Michael's memory, while Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo-like ... Full Review
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Cliff Robertson
Michael Courtland
Geneviève Bujold
Elizabeth Courtland, Sandra Portinari, Sandra Portinari / Elizabeth Courtland
John Lithgow
Robert La Salle
Sylvia "Kuumba" Williams
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