Moviecut—Unwritten Obsession

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It is a good plot and a very good characters. It's a simple movie but this is attractive. Two female main characters doing a convincent and seductive role play. It's not a masterpiece but is a entertaining TV movie who will keep you focused until "the end".

Skye is a down-on-her-luck author who had a popular success with one novel, but is now destitute. She meets a fan named Holly who appears obsessed with her and is willing to pay her for feedback on her own novel. Skye agrees to the deal and invites Holly into her home. What follows is a pair of dueling divas engaged in a dance of death. The actress playing Skye is convincing as the author who is broke and desperate. In turn, the performer playing Holly conveys a sense of menace as the relationship unfolds and Holly begins to take over the home. The drama soon develops into a cat-and-mouse game. But it is not clear who is the cat and who is the mouse. While the dramatic tension was good, and the film built to a successful ending with a good plot twist, the "One Year Later" denouement to the film was a disappointment. After the lengthy build-up, there could have been a better resolution with which to leave the viewer. Plagiarizing Mark Twain, Sky inscribes her books with the epigram "The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives." That detail and others, were effective in delineating the two principal characters in this film. Another good quote was from Denis de Rougement's "Love in the Western World," which was how Skye's late husband Paul inscribed the book to her: "Happy love has no history." It turns out that the two dueling divas both had a "history" that they were concealing from each other. That secret history was the dramatic stuff of this film.

I just watched this movie for the 1st time. very mysterious and shocking. especially at the end, where we learn the truth about holly/maya. and a great thriller too.

A typical Lifetime movie with good acting and a descent plot.Just don't expect a masterpiece.

I watch all lifetime movies and for me this was the first time that I ever sought out the director just to tell him how much I appreciated his film. I got a Steven King vibe from this movie. Reminded me of misery but had its differences. I actually couldn't tell what was coming. I had my suspicions but was wrong. I really enjoyed watching this film. Great work!

Lifetime Movies have gotten really over-the-top for the last 10 years. Most of them are painful to watch. Unwritten Obsession was a pleasant and welcome departure from that I must say! The characters are well portrayed; the plot is not overdone; the writing is superb, and the directing was magnificent. I've re-watched it several times.

This was an interesting one. Now I get made fun of quite a bit because of my shameless love of tv-movies, especially Lifetime and Hallmark, there's just something so comforting about the cheesiness of them. Every now and again Lifetime will release a thriller/horror movie that is head and shoulders above any of the usual fare they release, and Unwritten Obsession (aka Fangirl) is one of those movies. It doesn't really feel like a tv-movie at all, it looks more like something that would be released in theatres or at the very least, straight-to-DVD. It actually has a little bit of a Stephen King vibe to it, think Misery meets Single White Female meets Girl on the Train. Another thing I really loved about it was the emphasis on books, I'm a big reader so the combination of books and horror made this a really fun one to watch. Check it out!

I liked it right up to the end. It kept me guessing throughout the film what Holly's motives were. Since we never saw her interact with any other people, I began to wonder if she was the character Maya in Skye's book and her subconscious getting her to write the sequel to the bestseller. When we find out Holly is Maya, but a real life version, I was surprised and I liked the whole reveal and cat and mouse at the end. But the final 2 minutes when "One year later" flashed on the screen ruined it imo. Maya left the house with a signed confession from Skye admitting she stole the book "Maya's Fall" from her dead husband Paul and took the writing credit. She would have been exposed to the world and her fans as a huge fraud, not to mention the legal consequences of her actions. Yet here she is teaching a writing workshop with a gushing fan asking for her help on a book she's writing. What kind of help?....How to steal other's work? Why isn't she in prison? And how on earth is she teaching a writing class after the signed confession that she stole her first best seller? It's just never explained and the film ends. It was a catastrophic letdown after 90 minutes of a great story with a buildup that had me guessing right to the end. Without that final 2 minutes "One Year Later" crap, I would've given this a 10. Both lead actresses were good in the roles and the story was good...until those damn final 2 minutes ruined it all.