| | | How Far Would You Go To Protect What's Yours?
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.40:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled, French, Dubbed & Subtitled
When successful financial advisor Derek Charles (Idris Elba) settles into a new Los Angeles neighborhood with his loving wife Sharon (Beyonce Knowles) and young son Kyle, everything seems perfect. But when a beautiful temp, Lisa (Ali Larter), joins the firm, Derek's life takes a strange turn. After a misunderstood encounter at the company Holiday party, Lisa begins to spiral out of control - putting Derek's career in jeopardy and Sharon's marriage and life on the line.
"Obsessed delivers..." Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | Girl Fight! | | Interactive Menus | | Obsessed: Dressed to Kill | | Playing Together Nicely | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Obsessed (2009) - DVD Review By: Jason McKiernan - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/24/2009 7:48 PM | |
One pretty much knows what to expect going into a movie titled Obsessed. And in this case, that title delivers on every front -- a big business hotshot is propositioned by a disturbed secretary, and she turns into a vicious femme fatale who stalks our hero and attempts to tear down the magnificent life he has worked hard to build. What outrageous, over-the-top tripe. And what hysterical fun. Here is the most fantastically overwrought, deliberately melodramatic, white-knuckle B-movie of the year, a film so steeped in the formula of the psycho-sexual suspense flick that it works as both a thriller and a comedy....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 1/26/2010 |
| Running Time: 108 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2009 | | Catalog ID: 27282 | | UPC: 00043396272828 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Jerry O'Connell | | Christine Lahti | | Bruce McGill | | Beyonce Knowles | | Ali Larter | | Idris Elba | | Damon Lee - Executive Producer | | Matthew Knowles - Executive Producer | | Earvin "Magic" Johnson - Executive Producer | | Glenn S. Gainor - Executive Producer | | Ken Seng - Director of Photography | | Jim Dooley - Composer | | Beyonce Knowles - Executive Producer | | David Loughery - Executive Producer | | Jeffrey Graup - Executive Producer | | William Packer - Screenwriter | | David Loughery - Screenwriter | | Steve Shill - Director |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"[The director] moves things along quickly and efficiently, providing a requisite number of tense, squirm-inducing moments along the way." 04/27/2009Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "[With an] outrageously tabloid-pop climax." 04/24/2009 Rolling Stone Magazine 5 of 10
Memo to Beyonce Knowles: You were so good as Etta James in "Cadillac Records", so why'd you go spoil everything with a rank cheeseball thriller that buries you in clich?s and won't even help you dig yourself out? I'd call this stenchcloud "Fatal Attraction" meets "The Temp," but that would insult those movies. Movie? "Obsessed" doesn't move at all. It lays there like undigested latkes. Beyonce Knowles (she uses two names for movies) plays Sharon. She's happily married to asset manager Derek (Idris Elba), once on fire with The Wire and now reduced to a situation dire. OK, I'll stop. But the movie doesn't. Everything you need to know is in the trailer. Derek gets hit on by Lisa (Ali Larter), a temp from central slut casting. He resists her jiggly butt and pert breasts. This is the kind of no-balls movie where the guy is a saint, even before the temp turns psycho stalker. So where's the conflict? Nowhere. Screenwriter David Loughery and director Steve Shill, a TV hack (who'd have guessed?) have built something silly and shockingly unsexy (a wimpy PG-13 rating for this kind of trash -- whaat?) all in the name of big, climactic catfight that should been camp fun but is no fun at all. Beyonce does go medieval on what she calls Larter's "skinny white ass." She also calls her "crazy ass bitch." Obsessed is crazy-ass also. Crazy-ass awful. - Peter Travers
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