In 26-year-old Curry Barker’s hit movie Obsession, the ironically named Bear (Michael Johnston) is a young man who works in a music store and is too shy to ask Nikki (Inde Navarrette), his pretty co-worker, to go out with him. Instead, he buys a sort of magic wand or stick called a “One Wish Willow,” which claims on its packaging that, if you break it while making a wish, the wish comes true. “I wish,” says Bear, breaking the stick, “that Nikki Freeman loved me more than anyone in the f-cking world.
Those who are familiar with fairy tales—or movies with supernatural characters and events—can pretty much guess what happens next. So here’s Bear on the phone some time later with the One Wish Willow help line, whose number he finds on the box it came in.
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