Obsessed
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German title | Obsessed |
Original title | Obsessed |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2009 |
length | 108 minutes |
Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
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Director | Steve Shill |
script | David Loughery |
production | William Packer |
music | James Dooley |
camera | Ken Seng |
cut | Paul Seydor |
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Obsessed is a 2009 American thriller directed by Steve Shill . It is about a woman who is possessed by a man and tries to destroy his marriage in order to be with him herself. In the end it fails, and its interventions welded the marriage together. The film is a remake of a fatal affair (original title: Fatal Attraction ) by Adrian Lyne .
action
Derek Charles is newly married to Sharon and is moving into a large mansion with her. They have just had a son and married life seems to be perfect. Derek is a successful manager , which means that Sharon can concentrate solely on housekeeping and looking after the newborn child.
Sharon's opponent is Lisa Sheridan, a young attractive lady who has a temporary job in Derek's office for two weeks. She is obsessed with Derek and tries by all means to destroy his marriage and win him over. Derek doesn't get involved, but hides everything from his wife.
Lisa finally tries to take her own life with an overdose of pills after Derek's rejection. Derek finds and saves her at the last minute by alerting the ambulance. As a result of this incident, which took place on a business trip by Derek, his wife also became aware of Lisa. She traveled there without further ado and believed that Derek had cheated on her with Lisa.
From then on, Sharon and Derek live separately for three months until he succeeds in convincing Sharon of his innocence. No sooner has he succeeded than the now forgotten Lisa interferes again. She manages to kidnap her son temporarily and see Sharon at home, supposedly to talk to her about everything in peace. But she instigates a violent fight that becomes the final showdown between Lisa and Sharon. After a ten-minute fight, Sharon emerges victorious, but wants to save Lisa from the impending fatal fall from the attic. Lisa tries to drag Sharon to her death, but fails and finally falls alone to her death.
criticism
The lexicon of international films described the film as a "dramaturgically weak thriller". It is a "rather ridiculous than exciting play of (ethnic) clichés".
Awards (selection)
Was nominated Obsessed for the Golden Raspberry in 2010 , and Beyoncé Knowles as worst actress. In the same year, the film won an award in the Best Fight category (Knowles and Larter) at the MTV Movie Awards .
Web links
- Obsessed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Obsessed at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for Obsessed . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Obsessed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .