Sharp Corner

"Obsession is a dangerous road."

2025 1h 51m EN

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5.8

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92%

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5.9

IMDB

★5.8TMDB · 107🍅92%Rotten Tomatoes●76Metacritic★5.9IMDB · 5,155

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Synopsis

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A dedicated family man becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house – an obsession that could cost him everything.

“Obsession is a dangerous road.”

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Cast

Ben Foster
Josh McCall
Cobie Smulders
Rachel Davis-McCall
William Kosovic
Max McCall
Gavin Drea
Erikson
Emily Jewer
Collins
Susan Leblanc-Crawford
Memorial Mom
Sébastien Labelle
Memorial Dad
Rudy Harris
Teen Boy - Kyle Curry

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jason Buxton
Writers: Russell Wangersky, Maureen Dorey, Gillian Everill
Languages: English
Countries: Canada, United States of America

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ERA

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Released last year.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: Canada, United States of America.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jason Buxton, shot by Guy Godfree. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Stephen McKeon. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Jorge Weisz shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders and William Kosovic carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Obsession is a dangerous road.".

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IMDB entry: tt9569096 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Jason Buxton directs. Guy Godfree behind the camera. Stephen McKeon scores. Jorge Weisz cuts. Produced in Canada, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Released last year.
2International production across 2 countries: Canada, United States of America.
3Directed by Jason Buxton, shot by Guy Godfree. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Stephen McKeon. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Jorge Weisz shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders and William Kosovic carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Obsession is a dangerous road.".
8IMDB entry: tt9569096 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Guy Godfree
Original score: Stephen McKeon
Editing: Jorge Weisz
Production design: Jennifer Stewart
Costume design: Sarah Haydon Roy
VFX supervisor: Bob Munroe
Stunt coordinator: Randy Boliver
Runtime: 111 min · 1h 51m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Sharp Corner (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 92% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 76/100
IMDB rating: 5.9/10 · 5,155 votes

Awards

3 wins & 7 nominations total

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CinemaSerf2025-03-02
★ 6/10
The mild-mannered “Josh” (Ben Foster), his wife “Rachel” (Cobie Smulders) and their son “Max” (William Kosovic) have a brand new home and are looking forward to settling in when there is a car accident outside and a tyre comes a-bouncing through their window at a seriously inopportune moment! Needless to say they are a bit flustered and she thinks maybe they ought to move. Well when it happens again, you’d think that’d be a bit of a no-brainer but he is somehow captivated. Not by the accidents, but by the time it takes the emergency services to arrive, and so he decides to do some training to be able to help out. Of course, his wife and young son are perplexed by his increasingly odd behaviour, as is his boss, and so there’s soon a lot on the line for the man. I enjoyed the start of this, and I thought this might be Foster’s best performance, but after about half an hour it became a rather joyless exhibition of obsessiveness and selfishness topped off by a truly far-fetched, though sometimes darkly comedic, desire to do good. Smulders does fine, but only features sparingly - which is just as well for given her character is supposed to be a couples therapist, “Rachel” shows a complete lack of appreciation of her husband’s trauma and of their son’s needs that is ultimately annoyingly breathtaking. Sadly, the initially good idea just turns into a series of overly contrived bad decisions stitched together with an implausible series of incidents that rushed through some universally unlikeable and undercooked characterisations and left me wanting more - or less. Sorry.

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