Obsession (1976)
August 1, 1976Release Date
Obsession (1976)
August 1, 1976Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Cliff Robertson
Michael Courtland
Geneviève Bujold
Elizabeth Courtland / Sandra Portinari
John Lithgow
Robert Lasalle
Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Maid
Wanda Blackman
Amy Courtland
J. Patrick McNamara
Third Kidnapper
Stanley J. Reyes
Inspector Brie
Nick Kreiger
Farber
Stocker Fontelieu
Dr. Ellman
Don Hood
Ferguson
Andrea Esterhazy
D'Annunzio
Thomas Carr
Paperboy
Tom Felleghy
Italian Businessman
Nella Simoncini Barbieri
Mrs. Portinari
John Creamer
Justice of the Peace
Regis Cordic
Newscaster
Loraine Despres
Jane
Clyde Ventura
Ticket Agent
Fain M. Cogrove
Secretary
Robert Harper
Man in Airport (uncredited)
Brian De Palma
Director / Story
Vilmos Zsigmond
Director of Photography
Bernard Herrmann
Original Music Composer
Paul Hirsch
Editor
Harry N. Blum
Producer
Robert S. Bremson
Executive Producer
George Litto
Producer
Frank Beetson
Production Manager
Jack Senter
Art Direction
Jerry Wunderlich
Set Decoration
Frank Balchus
Costume Design
Joe Lombardi
Special Effects
Media.
Details.
Release DateAugust 1, 1976
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 39m
Content RatingPG
Budget$1,400,000
Box Office$4,468,000
Filming LocationsNew Orleans, United States of America · Florence, Italy
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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. Bernard Herrmann provided the film's soundtrack before his death in 1975. The story is about a prominent New Orleans businessman who is haunted by guilt following the death of his wife and daughter during a kidnapping-rescue attempt gone wrong. Years later, he meets and falls in love with a young woman who is the exact look-alike of his long dead wife.
Both De Palma and Schrader have pointed to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) as the major inspiration for Obsession's narrative and thematic concerns. Schrader's script was extensively rewritten and pared down by De Palma before shooting, causing the screenwriter to proclaim a complete lack of interest in the film's subsequent production and release.
Completed in 1975, Columbia Pictures picked up the distribution rights but demanded that minor changes be made to reduce potentially controversial aspects of the plot. When finally released in the late summer of 1976, it became De Palma's first substantial box-office success and received mixed reviews from critics.