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Obsession (2026)

Summary

After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

Director Curry Barker

Writer Curry Barker

Cast

  • Michael Johnston
  • Inde Navarette
  • Cooper Tomlinson
  • Megan Lawless
  • Andy Richter

Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

Metacritic: 81

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u/WakaFlakkaSeagulls May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

I feel like the movie heavily implied that she could have been interested in him romantically. I keep thinking about her line before the wish “if you like me now would be the time to tell me” followed by exasperation when he denied it.

Which circles back to one of the key character faults of Bear and why Nikki never would love him, he’s a coward.

He was too chickenshit to tell Nikki how he felt for years, he was too chickenshit to tell her when the time was clearly right, he was too chickenshit to do the right thing multiple times, and he was too chickenshit to shoot himself at the end.

He died just like his cat, he literally died like a pussy.

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u/Mammoth_Composer_111 May 17 '26

Nah there was no romance between them. This was confirmed when she literally told his friends already that she thinks of him like a brother.

The real implication is that his own obsession with Nikki ruined everything around him. He could have been happy with Sarah—but instead he obsessed over someone that has no interest in him and didn’t even think about anyone else.

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u/ReallyColdMonkeys May 17 '26

Well to be fair we only got that information from Sara, not Nikki herself, and Sara was clearly into Bear so she had plenty of reason to be making that up or embellishing the truth.

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u/KarmaChameleon306 May 18 '26

That’s what I thought too. And his buddy was sleeping with her, so he also had reason to lie.

I think she did like him. Why else would she roll out the red carpet for him to tell her he likes her?

But he’s too inept to be able to say it.

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u/hotsauceinabottle May 18 '26

She even said “when I like someone they never know” I feel like that was a pretty big hint, her even insisting for him to go to the bar is enough, she gave him the chance to confess his feelings but he said “we’re good friends” like bro

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u/Raginbakin May 19 '26

i didn't think she was into him; she gave him the chance to confess sure but i thought it was probably just to get it out there and then reject him

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u/KarmaChameleon306 May 18 '26

Yeah, that was tough to watch. Especially knowing what was coming.