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NUMBERS
Box Office: $10,684,049
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CONSENSUS
The plotline for Abandon is too disjointed and muddled to offer much in the way of thrills.
CAST & CREW
Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Zooey Deschanel
Directed by Stephen Gaghan, Edward Zwick
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SYNOPSIS
Oscar-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (TRAFFIC) makes his directorial debut with ABANDON, a dense, moody psychological thriller. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, drug and alcohol content, sexuality, some violence, and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 39 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 18, 2002
Video: Mar 18, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Paramount Pictures
GENRE
Dramas, Horror/Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery/Suspense
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Abandon Site
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 "Gaghan captures the half-lit, sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms, a subtlety that makes the silly, over-the-top coda especially disappointing."
-- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY
"A dark, dull thriller with a parting shot that misfires."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
 "Difficult to peg and just as hard to predict."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Meandering and glacially paced, and often just plain dull."
-- Scott Von Doviak, FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
"The only thing worse than your substandard, run-of-the-mill Hollywood picture is an angst-ridden attempt to be profound."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"...the last time I saw a theater full of people constantly checking their watches was during my SATs."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"Just another disjointed, fairly predictable psychological thriller."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Most of the problems with the film don't derive from the screenplay, but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved"
-- Vanessa Sibbald, ZAP2IT.COM
"It's just plain boring."
-- Erich Scholz, CITYSEARCH
"Writer-director Stephen Gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the English call 'too clever by half.'"
-- Craig Roush, KINNOPIO'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"Too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a bigger, more complicated story, one that never materializes."
-- Rene Rodriguez, MIAMI HERALD
"A sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that everyone except the characters in it can see coming a mile away."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"The premise of "Abandon" holds promise,... but its delivery is a complete mess."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
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"A puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"... an otherwise intense, twist-and-turn thriller that certainly shouldn’t hurt talented young Gaghan’s resume."
-- John Urbancich, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"'Abandon all hope, ye who enter here'...you should definitely let Dante's gloomy words be your guide."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"A muddy psychological thriller rife with miscalculations. It makes me say the obvious: Abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"“Abandon” will leave you wanting to abandon the theater."
-- Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi, BROOMFIELD ENTERPRISE
"shows Holmes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady, (but) the movie itself is an underachiever, a psychological mystery that takes its sweet time building to a climax that's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives."
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
"In the end, the film is less the cheap thriller you’d expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its two main characters — damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerously collide."
-- Nick Rogers, STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER (SPRINGFIELD, IL)
"Thriller directorial debut for Traffic scribe Gaghan has all the right parts, but the pieces don't quite fit together."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
"Poor Ben Bratt couldn't find stardom if MapQuest emailed him point-to-point driving directions."
-- Mark Ramsey, MOVIEJUICE!
"A bit of an unwieldy mess."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
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ROTTEN 21%
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"Challenging, intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creative. But it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle."
-- Bill Wyman, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"Gaghan ... has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
"It's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"A trite psychological thriller designed to keep the audience guessing and guessing -- which is not to be confused with suspecting -- until it comes time to wrap things up and send the viewers home."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"One of the most incoherent features in recent memory."
-- Charles Taylor, SALON.COM
"One sloughs one's way through the mire of this alleged psychological thriller in search of purpose or even a plot."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"It's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness, and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet I found it weirdly appealing."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"Hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdown, the film nevertheless works up a few scares."
-- Ed Park, VILLAGE VOICE
"The next big thing's not-so-big (and not-so-hot) directorial debut."
-- Bruce Newman, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
"... expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse, turning into a black hole of dullness, from which no interesting concept can escape."
-- Bill Muller, ARIZONA REPUBLIC
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"Abandon spends 90 minutes trying figure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentionally left college or was killed. The only problem is that, by the end, no one in the audience or the film seems to really care."
-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
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