Obsessed (2009)

User Rating:

3.8/10   

Director:

Steve Shill

Writer (WGA):

David Loughery (written by)

Release Date:

24 April 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

All's fair when love is war.

Plot:

A successful asset manager, who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage. But a temp worker starts stalking him, all the things he's worked so hard for are placed in jeopardy.

Plot Keywords:

Temp Worker | Stalking | Beautiful Woman | Female Stalker | Non Statutory Female On Male Rape Attempt

US Showtimes:

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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

Also Known As:

Oh No She Didn't (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual material including some suggestive dialogue, some violence and thematic content.

Runtime:

USA:108 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #44507) | UK:12A | Ireland:15A | Singapore:PG | South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Screen Gems

Trivia:

Shipped to theaters under the code name "Logical Consequences".

Goofs:

Continuity: at the end of the movie when the two girls fight, Beyoncé has a cut near her lips then when she is outside with Derick she doesn't have the cut anymore.

Quotes:

Sharon Charles: I'll wipe the floor with your skinny ass.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The Paul O'Grady Show: (2009-04-29)" (2009)

Soundtrack:

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

this movie is way too bootylicious for us all

Fellas, do yourself a favor - if you have to see this, see it with your "woman" (by that I mean wife or very close significant other, not a first date for the love of Pete), and make sure she pays. You all know she wants to see it, and by the end you'll maybe even thank her for it. Obsessed is one of those movies that women love to watch in their PJ's on a Sunday afternoon with a pint of ice-cream when nothing else is on *except* for the trashiest piece of trash on TV. And make no mistake, Obsessed is such trash that it is a 3rd rate ripoff of Fatal Attraction, which many forget was *already* a rip-off on Clint Eastwood's Play Misty for Me. Here's what you need to know: nice business guy with lots of cake and a fine mansion and a super-fine wife and young tot gets derailed off of living in banality by a foxy-but-trouble type of girl who's working part time in the office.

That's it. No more explanation. If you can guess everything that the characters will do, or wont due to incompetence, then you're doing well. Obsessed makes no bones about being original, and in fact could be the precise template needed if anyone ever wanted to do a full-blown ZAZ-style parody on pscyho-chick movies. It takes itself so seriously that it's hard not to knock on it in most of the scenes - and it becomes further frustrating since out of the three main characters, one actor (Idris Elba) is actually very good, almost too good, for the material, and another (Ali Larter) fits in in her completely 1 1/2 dimensional role without much struggle. Only one, Beyonce, seems to be actually trying too hard to "act" and again gets in trouble as she did in Dreamgirls.

The direction is very slack- considering it's a TV guy who did it, maybe only TV according to his creds- and the writing is slack-ier. The development of characterization and plot moves along like a expertly crafted diarrhea, meaning that it never really stops from its trajectory, and it may be a little smooth going, but it also hurts trying to see it accomplish anything aside from pain. And yet, as far as painful cinema goes, it could've been worse. It certainly has the grace to give us a gigantic cat-fight at the end that you'd expect samurai swords. It's not campy enough to recommend, and by no means if you are a heterosexual male will you get much satisfaction out of it. Girls will giggle and be fine with stuff that is run of the mill, with a few jolting twists along the way.