Twisted Obsession (1989)

movie

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Country: France, Spain
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Release: 1990-08-03
Director: Fernando Trueba
Writers: Christopher Frank , Manolo Matji , Menno Meyjes , Fernando Trueba
Language: English | Spanish
Stars: Jeff Goldblum , Miranda Richardson (I) , Anémone , Daniel Ceccaldi , Dexter Fletcher , Liza Walker , Jerome Natali , Asunción Balaguer , Arielle Dombasle , Micky Sébastian
Runtime: 103 min
Awards: 6 wins & 6 nominations
AKA: The Mad Monkey (Australia) , El mono loco (Spain) , The Mad Monkey , The Mad Monkey (Denmark) , Çarpık Saplantı (Turkey) , O Macaco Louco (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Mad Monkey (France, French Republic) , La scimmia impazzita (Italy) , 禁断のつぼみ (Japan) , To oneiro tou trellou pithikou (Greece) , Hullun apinan uni (Finland) , O Sonho Do Macaco Louco (Brazil) , Le rêve du singe fou (France, French Republic) , Сон безумной обезьяны , Лудата маймуна (Bulgaria) , Το όνειρο του τρελού πιθήκου (Greece) , Twisted Obsession (United States of America) , El sueño del mono loco (Spain) , Podwójna obsesja (Poland) , El sueño del mono loco , The Mad Monkey (United Kingdom) , Le singe fou (France, French Republic) , Twisted Obsession (Canada) , Őrült majom (Hungary) , The Mad Monkey (South Africa)
Plot: Dan Gillis, an American screenwriter living in Paris, recently abandoned by his wife, and getting used to his new life as a bachelor while trying to take care of his son, Danny - is commissioned to write a script for a movie called "The Dream of the Mad Monkey". The offer comes from Legrand, a successful producer with whom he has worked in the past, but on this occasion he is being asked to write an unconventional story with Malcolm, a young and unknown film director. Dan is undecided about the offer, seeing it as far from the kind of work he has grown used to, but eventually agrees to do the job despite the reticence of Marilyn, his beautiful disabled agent. As he starts to work on the script, Dan allows himself to become immersed in the closed universe of potentially incestuous relations surrounding Malcolm and his beautiful but emotionally detached young sister Jenny. Dan becomes obsessed with mysterious Jenny and they soon become lovers in a not so conventional way. In his obsession, Dan tries to find out more about her and in the process realizes that everything is not exactly what it seems and that he's been used.
IMDB:tt0098407