Taglines: She has a killer appetite.
Compulsion is a psychological thriller starring Heather Graham and Carrie-Anne Moss as two women with dark pasts who live in apartments across from one another. Both suffer from various degrees of obsessive disorders and live in slightly skewed worlds of their own making. With images of sumptuous food and sensual enjoyment, the film explores the intimacy between the two through their connection with food, eating disorders and sex. In a battle of wills, one woman overflows with illusions and fearlessly faces life while the other withdraws from everything and fearlessly faces death.
Compulsion is a Canadian independent psychological thriller film directed by Egidio Coccimiglio and starring Heather Graham, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Dillon, and Joe Mantegna. The movie is based on the South Korean film 301, 302 directed by Park Chul-soo, which also serves as a remake. It focuses on two women occupying neighboring apartments, each one grappling with psychological disorders that begin to overtake their lives. The movie opened for limited release on June 21, 2013.
Amy (Heather Graham), an obsessive chef, befriends an anorexic former child star Saffron (Carrie-Anne Moss) living in the apartment next door, sparking a fiery battle of wills. Unstable Amy wields a spatula like a samurai, and dreams of the day she’ll have her own cooking show. As a young girl, Amy was infatuated with a television show starring Saffron (Carrie-Anne Moss), who subsequently vanished into obscurity.
The damaged daughter of a tyrannical stage mother, Saffron has struggled with an eating disorder ever since she was a little girl. Plagued by deep-rooted intimacy issues, she spends most of her time alone until the day she crosses paths with Amy. At first, Amy can’t believe her luck at having her childhood idol living right next door, and at first the two women even sense an ethereal connection that bonds them. Later, as their true colors begin to emerge, both Amy and Saffron discover just how toxic their chemistry may be.
Compulsion (2013)
Directed by: Egidio Coccimiglio
Starring: Heather Graham, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Mantegna, Kevin Dillon, James McGowan, Daiva Johnston, Katie Douglas, Natalie Brown, Theresa Joy
Screenplay by: Floyd Byars, Cheol-su Park
Production Design by: Michelle Lannon
Cinematography by: Vilmos Zsigmond
Film Editing by: D. Gillian Truster
Costume Design by: Melissa Stewart
Music by: Jonathan Goldsmith
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexuality, a brief sexual assault, and some language.
Studio: Phase 4 Films
Release Date: June 21, 2014
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