Product Description

Genre: Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 4-AUG-2009
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14858 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2009-08-04
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 108 minutes

Amazon.com
Obsessed is one of those movies best described as “a stylish thriller”: the characters are mostly young and gorgeous, with their white-collar gigs, designer duds, and fancy cars, and if there’s not much of substance to be found beneath those sleek, polished surfaces, well, who says a story must have a message to be entertaining? The comparisons to Fatal Attraction (with its jilted would-be lover going all psycho on the object of her, uh, affections) and Disclosure (with its reverse sexual harassment) are apt enough, but Obsessed is a little different. For starters, unlike the character played by Michael Douglas in Attraction, this film’s Derek Charles (Idris Elba) does little to encourage Lisa Sheridan (Ali Larter), the temp worker at his asset-management firm who gloms onto him like a lamprey sucking on its unwilling host; for another, Derek’s wife, Sharon (Beyonce Knowles), is no wallflower who stands idly and ignorantly by while her life is shredded by her hubby’s evasions and the increasingly crazed tactics of the woman who’s stalking him (it’s to the credit of director Steve Shill and screenwriter David Loughery that nothing whatsoever is made of the fact that Derek is black and Lisa is white). Still, the holes in the plot are big enough to drive several Mercedes sedans through. For one thing, Lisa’s fixation on Derek seems to come out of nowhere (if she has a past, we’re not told about it); what's more, even if Derek has broken his deal with Sharon not to have any female assistants (she was once one herself), it seems mighty extreme for her to kick him out of the house for three months simply for not coming completely clean about his mostly-innocent dealings with Lisa. Still, the film manages to make the viewer feel Derek’s helpless desperation at being targeted by this manipulative nut job, and when Sharon finally confronts her family’s tormentor at the end (“You think you’re crazy? I’ll show you crazy!”), the result is silly but somehow satisfying. --Sam Graham

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28 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
On no she didn't!
By N. Durham
Want to see a supremely watered down version of Fatal Attraction? If so, look no further than Obsessed, a potboiler that holds back much more than it succeeds in terms of being a potboiler. The Wire's Idris Elba stars as a successful corporate man who also plays loving family man to his wife (Beyonce Knowles), and soon becomes the target of psychotic young temp (Heroes' Ali Larter). Wholly predictable and cliche, Obsessed is mind numbingly dull from beginning to end, but I guess this is the kind of thing that passes for suspense these days that mainstream audiences seem to eat right up. Elba is disappointing wasted in his role, while Knowles and Larter do their respective parts at looking gorgeous, and doing nothing else as well. All in all, Obsessed is something that you could easily save yourself a few brain cells by not giving the time of day, and spending your viewing time on something more worthwhile.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
UMMM.......Try again
By Ms Laina
Beyonce was not right for this menial part. Her acting wasn't for this part. (Beyonce is too good for this) Now she is a good actor and I would have loved to see her as the wife but this tacky story line was not for her. Idris Elba played his part. (I love me some Idris!!) And Ali Larter played hers . BUT this movie was low grade; well the story line was anyway and worst of all it wasn't finished.
Okay in the end, what happened? Did they go to court? Did the detective find out the truth? (I mean the truth speaks for itelf but the movie should give you the answer) Did Beyonce understand what happened without you guessing? I mean in the end there are a lot of gaps.
Overall, the movie is okay but wait for it to come out on cable or borrow it!!! TRUST ME!!! It should be televised on network tv maybe even BET.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Intriguing
By S. Floyd
Very good movie. Genuine acting from all. Enjoyed the plot, and was surprised by the ending. Would recommend this film.