- Love Object
Infobox Film | name = Love Object
caption = "Love Object" onesheet poster
director = Robert Parigi
producer = Lawrence LevyEd Pressman
writer = Robert Parigi
starring =Desmond Harrington Melissa Sagemiller Rip Torn
music = Nicholas Pike
cinematography = Sidney Sidell
editing = Troy Takaki
distributor =Lions Gate Home Entertainment
released =May 7 ,2004 (USA )
runtime = 84 min.
language = English
budget = 1M
imdb_id = 0328077"Love Object" is a
2003 film written and directed byRobert Parigi . Kenneth (played byDesmond Harrington ) plays an efficient but socially awkward technical writer who develops an obsessive relationship with Nikki, a rubbersex doll he orders.Plot
Kenneth Winslow is an extremely shy but brilliant technical writer who orders a rubber sex-doll.
He develops a relationship with "Nikki", to the point of talking and even arguing with her. Kenneth begins to display bizarre behavior, and starts to feel "stalked" by Nikki. His relationship with Nikki evolves into a love-hate situation, and at one point even beats her. During the time he has a relationship with Nikki, he meets Lisa (
Melissa Sagemiller ), a temp that his boss, Mr.Novak (played byRip Torn ) has assigned to work with Kenneth.Kenneth reluctantly accepts Lisa as his assistant, but the two slowly begin to develop a relationship. Kenneth encourages Lisa to resemble Nikki by cutting her hair the way Nikki has it and wearing the same clothes Nikki has (without Lisa knowing who Nikki is). It's during this time that Nikki "stalks" Kenneth (though it may be paranoia on Kenneth's part). Kenneth later "kills" Nikki by cutting her up with a saw and disposing the remains in a trash bin. Lisa eventually becomes aware of Nikki's existence, and becomes disturbed when she finds out Kenneth wanted Lisa to be modeled after a rubber doll. Lisa promptly breaks up with Kenneth.
Nikki was already "dead" by this time, so Kenneth kidnaps Lisa. Kenneth's landlord discovers a bound and gagged Lisa in his apartment, and Kenneth bludgeons him with a hammer and later cuts him up with the same saw he cut Nikki with. Lisa hears the mutilation from the other room, but since she's restrained, she can do nothing.
Kenneth then places Lisa's bound and gagged body in the crate Nikki arrived in and forces her to spend the night there.
The next morning, Kenneth then proceeds to "transform" Lisa into Nikki. He dresses her up in Nikki's clothes, straps her down, and in a rather disturbing scene, begins to bleed Lisa and replace her blood with embalming fluid.
Lisa manages to escape from her restraints and attacks Kenneth. She hits him in the head with a small statue, rendering him unconscious. Lisa, at this point nearly deranged with shock, fear, and disgust, is about to stab Kenneth when the police arrive (after finding the landlord's body in the same dumpster the Nikki doll was left in), and when they see a raging Lisa about to stab an unconscious Kenneth, they shoot her. Lisa, wearing Nikki's clothes, falls dead in the crate Nikki came in -- Lisa has been "transformed".
The police notice an article for women in the apartment on "How to Hunt a Man." It was made to look like Lisa was obsessing over Kenneth, held him captive in his own apartment, and tried to kill him. Kenneth is never accused of his crimes.
Much later, he re-orders another Nikki. While buying flowers for Nikki, he notices the attractive brunette at the floral shop and begins to fantasize about her the same way he fantasized about Lisa. The viewer is left to assume the Kenneth's obsessive cycle and love triangle will start all over again.
Cast
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Desmond Harrington - Kenneth Winslow
*Melissa Sagemiller - Lisa Bellmer
*Udo Kier - Radley, the landlord
*Rip Torn - Mr.Novak
*Camille Guaty - cashier at floral shopExternal links
*imdb title|id=0328077|title=Love Object
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