Rent Obsession (1976)
3.4 of 5 from 82 ratings
1h 36min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- A tenth wedding anniversary celebration ends tragically when Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) discovers that his wife (Genevieve Bujold) and 9-year-old daughter have been kidnapped. When an attempt to thwart the captors goes awry, Courtland's wife and daughter are never recovered. Several years later while vacationing in Florence, Courtland falls in love with a young woman who is an exact double of his dead wife. On the eve of their wedding, the woman disappears and Courtland finds a ransom note - a duplicate of the one found several years earlier.
- Actors:
- Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Wanda Blackman, J. Patrick McNamara, Stanley J. Reyes, Nick Kreiger, Stocker Fontelieu, Don Hood, Andrea Esterhazy, Thomas Carr, Tom Felleghy, Nella Simoncini Barbieri, John Creamer, Regis Cordic, Loraine Despres, Clyde Ventura, Fain M. Cogrove, Robert Harper
- Directors:
- Brian De Palma
- Producers:
- Harry N Blum, George Litto
- Writers:
- Brian De Palma, Paul Schrader
- Others:
- Bernard Herrmann
- Studio:
- Anchor Bay
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- Collections:
- inema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 2, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Brian De Palma, Top 10 French-Language Remakes
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 11/07/2011
- Run Time:
- 98 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Obsession Revisited (37 mins): A documentary featurette including interviews with director Brian De Palma, stars Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold and more!
- Early Brian De Palma short films: Woton's Wake (1962) and The Responsive Eye (1966)
- Original Trailer
