Little associate producer, George Flynn casting, Valorie Massalas, Ron Digman. Screenplay, David Loughery.Ĭamera (Deluxe color), Ken Seng editor, Paul Seydor music, Jim Dooley production designer, Jon Gary Steele art director, Chris Cornwell set decorator, Dena Roth costume designer, Maya Lieberman sound (Dolby Digital/SDDS/DTS), Tateum Kohut, Greg Orloff supervising sound editors, Will Riley, Sean McCormack visual effects supervisor, Rocco Passionino visual effects, Zoic Studios special effects coordinator, John Frazier stunt coordinator, Lance Gilbert assistant director, Mark A. Gainor, Mathew Knowles, Beyonce Knowles, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, David Loughery, Damon Lee, Jeff Graup. It seems to be an unhealthy trend.Ī Sony Pictures Entertainment release of a Screen Gems presentation of a Rainforest production.
The seldom-seen Christine Lahti does play the requisite detective, albeit one who has a tendency to show up just as the action has come to an end.īruce McGill is his usual sturdy self as Derek’s boss, but Jerry O’Connell gives one weird performance as his office pal, Ben. But Shill and Loughery aren’t overly concerned with plausibility: There isn’t one woman in a position higher than secretary at Derek’s firm, and this alone makes the pic as shaky as Derek’s attic floor.
If Derek had actually slept with Lisa, a la Michael Douglas in “Fatal Attraction,” “Obsessed” would at least have had the spurned-woman gambit to play, however hoary. David Loughery’s screenplay never provides any explanation for why she is who she is: She has no motives other than mad obsession (which isn’t that interesting, really even the Wicked Witch of the West had reasons), and she has no backstory: Unless her temp agency recruits its workers outside Home Depot, Lisa would have to have references, and she would have to have acquired them from somewhere outside the mental-health community. Derek is believable enough not so Lisa, whose inappropriate antics wouldn’t be tolerated for five minutes in today’s sexual harassment-conscious corporate atmosphere. Sharon doesn’t leave a good impression, but Derek is the picture of marital fidelity: No matter how slinkily Lisa comports herself, Derek says no, thanks. But Derek, it seems, met Sharon at work, too (cue the organist). “I want her fired immediately,” Sharon says (so much for sisterhood), and no one seems to think this marks any instability in what is soon to be one plutonium-enriched domestic partnership.
They seem the picture of contentment, save for Sharon’s obvious unhappiness with the fact that Derek has a new female assistant. Derek and wife Sharon (Knowles), who have a kid, have just moved into a cavernous old house with a wobbly attic floor and a glass-top table directly underneath it downstairs (remember this later!). Sultry blonde Larter (“Heroes”) plays office temp/temptress Lisa Sheridan, who isn’t even off the elevator at her latest job before she’s set her psychotic sights on Derek (Idris Elba), a good-looking, happily married, up-and-coming investment broker at a flourishing downtown Los Angeles firm.