Abandon Movie Review 2002

"Traffic" screenwriter Stephen Gaghan makes his directorial debut in this psychological thriller that centers on bookworm college student Katie (Holmes) and her mysteriously missing boyfriend Embry (Hunnam). When police detective Wade (Bratt) arrives to question Katie two years after the disappearance of the eccentric Embry, she begins to see glimpses of him all over campus. The "twist" ending is fairly predictable, but the cast, particularly Union, Mann and Deschanel as Katie's classmates, get the most out of the script. Based on the book "Adam's Fall" by Sean Desmond.

Distribution

Paramount Home Video, 5555 Melrose Ave., 5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038, Phone: (323)956-5000, URL: http://www.paramount.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 99 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Campus Capers, Missing Persons, On the Rocks, Homicide, Police Detectives

Screenplay

Stephen Gaghan

Cast

Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam, Zooey Deschanel, Gabrielle Union, Gabriel Mann, Mark Feuerstein, Melanie Lynskey, Will McCormack, Philip Bosco, Tony Goldwyn, Fred Ward

Cinematography

Matthew Libatique

Director

Stephen Gaghan

Music

Clint Mansell

Other

Claude Hazanavicius, Pierre Blain, Mark Warner, Pierre Perrault, Louise Frogley, Gideon Ponte

Producer

Lynda Obst, Edward Zwick, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Spyglass Entertainment, Paramount Pictures