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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.
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.
Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) is a husband and father whose wife, Elizabeth (Geneviève Bujold), and daughter, Amy (Wanda Blackman), have been kidnapped. When a...
De Palma and Schrader, and Bernard Herrmann with his beautifully overdone music, and Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold with their mutual obsession, are all playing this material as broadly as possible. This is a 1940s melodrama out of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater by way of a gothic novel. If you want realism, go to another movie.
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Obsession (1976) -- (Movie Clip) The Same LaSalle (John Lithgow) delivers Courtland (Cliff Robertson) to the church in Florence where he first sees the dead ringer (Genevieve Bujold) for his dead wife, in Brian De Palma's Obsession, 1976.
A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife. New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland's life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt.
