Movie Type: Psychological Thriller, Police Detective Film
Themes: Haunted By the Past, Mind Games, College Life
Main Cast: Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam, Zooey Deschanel, Gabriel Mann
Release Year: 2002
Country: US
Run Time: 99 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
A young woman is faced with the disturbing reemergence of a man she once loved in this psychological thriller. Embry Langan (Charlie Hunnam) was a wealthy but reckless student at an exclusive private college until he mysteriously vanished, with airline tickets to Europe left unused and plenty of money still in the bank. Two years later, Katie Burke (Katie Holmes), Embry's girlfriend, is still dealing with his disappearance as she goes into the home stretch of her college career. With exams, a thesis, and job interviews to think about, Katie is already walking an emotional tightrope when Wade Handler (Benjamin Bratt), a police detective, enters the picture. Handler, a recovering alcoholic, has been ordered to reopen the Langan case, and as he questions Katie about the missing man, she finds her obsession with her former beau taking over her life, which leaves her all the more unnerved when she begins seeing Embry around the campus. Meanwhile, Handler's investigation begins to suggest Langan's disappearance may have been more sinister than imagined, and could be connected with other cases of missing students. Abandon marked the directorial debut for screenwriter Stephen Gaghan, who won an Oscar for his script for Traffic. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Pierre Perrault - Art Director, Jeanne McCarthy - Casting, Juel Bestrop - Casting, Kathleen Chopin - Casting, Elizabeth Joan Hooper - Co-producer, Shannon Burke - Co-producer, Louise Frogley - Costume Designer, Michael Williams - First Assistant Director, Stephen Gaghan - Director, Mark Warner - Editor, Richard Vane - Executive Producer, Clint Mansell - Composer (Music Score), Gideon Ponte - Production Designer, Matthew J. Libatique - Cinematographer, Gary Barber - Producer, Roger Birnbaum - Producer, Lynda Obst - Producer, Edward Zwick - Producer, Guy Pigeon - Set Designer, Claude Hazanavicius - Sound/Sound Designer, Tony Lamberti - Sound/Sound Designer, Geoffrey G. Rubay - Sound/Sound Designer, Pierre Blain - Sound/Sound Designer, Tony Lamberti - Supervisor/Manager, Geoffrey G. Rubay - Supervisor/Manager, Stephen Gaghan - Screenwriter, Sean Desmond - Book Author, Howard A. Anderson Company - Title Design
The film co-stars Zooey Deschanel and Elizabeth Whitmere, with Benjamin Bratt playing the detective investigating the boyfriend's disappearance. It received generally negative reviews, with Variety magazine dismissing it as "a tricked-up Fatal Attraction wannabe".[2] Coincidentally, Fatal Attraction was also released by Paramount.
