A glimpse of a poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo’’ in an early scene is a not-quite-subtle hint that Arie Posin’s romantic drama will riff on that classic’s theme of a person becoming obsessed with someone who’s an exact double of someone they lost.

In this case, Annette Bening — whose character artfully stages empty houses for real estate agents — is still mourning the death of her architect husband (Ed Harris), the victim of a drowning accident five years earlier in Mexico. Then she encounters a long-divorced artist (also played by Harris) who’s his spitting image.

Ignoring her stalkerish behavior, Harris falls in love with Bening —  who not only doesn’t tell him about...