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Obsessed (2009)

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Reviews Counted:17

Fresh:1

Rotten:16

Average Rating:3/10

Consensus: The inevitable Fatal Attraction comparisons aside, Obsessed is a generic, toothless thriller both instantly predictable and instantly forgettable.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual material including some suggestive dialogue, some violence and thematic content.

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Apr 24, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $68,261,644

Synopsis: Hell hath no fury like an office temp scorned in director Stephen Shill's domestic thriller OBSESSED. Executive-produced by entertainment megastar Beyonce Knowles, the film stars Knowles as Sharon,... Hell hath no fury like an office temp scorned in director Stephen Shill's domestic thriller OBSESSED. Executive-produced by entertainment megastar Beyonce Knowles, the film stars Knowles as Sharon, a one-time temp who has become a dutiful wife to investment brokerage hot-shot Derek (Idris Elba of THE WIRE), as well as the mother to their son. Further temp-tation arrives in the form of Lisa (Ali Larter of HEROES), who sets her blonde ambitions on Derek from day one. Sharon is wary but Derek remains a model of marital fidelity in the face of Lisa's repeated flirtations--inappropriate incidents that he avoids telling Sharon about. But when Derek rejects Lisa's sexual advances at the company Christmas party, her downward spiral of romantic obsession leads her to pursue Derek on a corporate retreat and attempt suicide in his hotel room. Promptly sent into spousal exile, Derek must win back Sharon's trust while the two attempt to put Lisa's psychotic episode behind them. Lisa is one temp who's not easily reassigned, though, and her increasingly brazen intrusions into Derek and Sharon's life auger an inevitable reckoning between the would-be seducer and wife. First-time film director Shill gets a wonderfully wicked performance from Larter, while Knowles shows off her claws in the film's climactic showdown. Taking its place alongside such films as FATAL ATTRACTION and DISCLOSURE, OBSESSED is a rollicking reminder that all's fair in love and stalking. [More]

Starring: Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles, Ali Larter, Bruce McGill

Starring: Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles, Ali Larter, Bruce McGill, Jerry O'Connell, Christine Lahti

Director: Steve Shill

Director: Steve Shill
Screenwriter: David Loughery, Will Packer
Composer: Jim Dooley
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Aug 4, 2009

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.40

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dubbed - French
  • Subtitles - English, French

Additional Release Material:

  • Behind the Scenes: Obsessed: Dressed to Kill

Featurette:

  • 1. Playing Together Nicely
  • 2. Girl Fight!
 
 
 
 

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A silly, contrived film.

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
05/04/09
Ben Lyons
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Elba and Larter are actually pretty good. Beyonce, through, strikes one note throughout.

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
05/04/09
Ben Mankiewicz
Ben Mankiewicz
At the Movies
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As far as the crazy-stalker-chick genre goes, Obsessed isn't horrible. It's just intensely simple-minded.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
04/27/09
Dan Zak
Dan Zak
Washington Post
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Spends much time spinning its wheels and making auds practically beg for an explanation to all the madness and obsession.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
04/27/09
John Anderson
John Anderson
Variety
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If the producers had done their work properly on Obsessed, I would not now be wishing I could reclaim the two hours I wasted on this tepid, sexless, thrill-free melodrama.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment 2 Comments
04/27/09
Greg Quill
Greg Quill
Toronto Star
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Great-looking actors, glossy locations and a knock-down, drag-out girlfight still don't make Obsessed anything more than a predictable and tawdry Fatal Attraction-style guilty pleasure.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
04/27/09
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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Obsessed takes far too long to get cooking, and it works so hard at not being exploitation that it loses sight of its reasons for existing in the first place.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
04/27/09
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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One doesn't expect a movie of this type to be plausible, but this one stretches the plausibility factor past the snapping point to the unintentional-laughter point.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
04/27/09
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Obsessed, is short on dimension and subtlety, but it turns into a mess believable enough to keep us invested.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
04/27/09
Gary Goldstein
Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
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Until Beyonce and Ali Larter duke it out at the climax, this is one dull film.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
04/27/09
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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Obsessed is a safe, dull morality play. The most that can be said on its behalf is that, unlike Fatal Attraction, no bunnies were boiled in the picture.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
04/27/09
Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole
Globe and Mail
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Obsessed dutifully revises the 'blank from hell' genre which gave the world ridiculous, misogynist thrillers in the mid-1980s and early 1990s.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
04/27/09
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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This biracial entry in the psycho-bitch stalker sweepstakes is inept and stupid but not without its base pleasures.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
04/27/09
Cliff Doerksen
Cliff Doerksen
Chicago Reader
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I'd call this stenchcloud 'Fatal Attraction meets The Temp,' but that would insult those movies.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
04/27/09
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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More like Delayed Frustration than Fatal Attraction.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
04/27/09
Joe Neumaier
Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
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Obsessed, a clanking, low-rent imitation of Fatal Attraction, lacks both the original film’s imagination and moral ambiguity.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
04/27/09
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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It's doubtful that Obsessed will stick in the popular imagination for more than two weeks, because the movie is borderline ludicrous, and it jams its characters into rigid slots.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
04/24/09
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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