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Mood:
- EmotionalSentimentalStylizedTouchingUplifting
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- WomanizerRedemptionDoctors and PatientsFall in LoveHopesLove and RomanceMind and SoulCouples more...
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Genres:
- DramaRomanceMelodrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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- Date Night
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- Critically Acclaimed
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- Based on Book
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Magnificent Obsession, 1954
English, German
USA
Profile of Magnificent Obsession
Magnificent Obsession can be described as emotional, sentimental, and uplifting. The plot revolves around womanizing, doctors and patients, and redemption. The main genres are drama and romance. In terms of style, Magnificent Obsession is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Magnificent Obsession takes place in the 1950s. It is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being critically acclaimed. Magnificent Obsession is well suited for a date night.
Summary of Magnificent Obsession
Rock Hudson bursts through the screen as reckless playboy Bob Merrick in Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession. He creams across a lake at 150 miles per hour in a brightly painted speedboat. Merrick's haughty indulgence sets off a fantastically spectacular chain of tragic events that will transform him and all of those around him. When the speedboat jaunt ends in an accident, Merrick must be resuscitated using the town's only life-saving mechanism, and as a consequence, leaving the saintly local surgeon, Dr. Philips, to die of a heart attack at his stately villa across the lake. When Merrick learns of his part in the doctor's death, he makes a half-hearted attempt to square things with the devastated widow, Helen (Jane Wyman). However, his careless ham-fisted apologies accidentally cause an accident that leaves Helen completely blind. Under the sure, visionary hand of master melodramatist Sirk, these sprawling, high-pitched coincidences congeal to create a stunning window into the morals and mysteries of the American family and value system. Merrick's trail towards redemption by way of a mysterious brand of Christian philanthropy engenders the "Magnificent Obsession" of the title, as he embarks on a desperate study of medicine in order to cure Helen's blindness and hopefully atone for a life's worth of sins.
Details
| Language: | English, German |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 4 August 1954 |
| Runtime: | 108 min |
Cast and Crew
as Helen Phillips
as Bob Merrick
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