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	Political Film Society - Abandon
		Abandon, directed by Stephen Gaghan, is about a young man, Embry Larkin (played by Charlie Hunnam), who disappeared two years earlier.
		When the film begins, the missing persons case is assigned to Detective Wade Handler (played by Benjamin Bratt) because he was the heir to a large fortune.
		That Abandon is based on the novel Adam's Fall (2000) by Sean Desmond is perhaps the most revealing clue of all.
	www.geocities.com /polfilms/abandon.html (454 words)

	Movie-List - Reviews - Abandon
		"Abandon" is a university campus thriller that follows the exploits of one Katie Burke (Katie Holmes) who is devotedly pushing her way through her financial thesis.
		This film wasn't "adapted", "based on" or "inspired by" it was suggested by a third party who wasn't even the author.
		In this film she just seems to be playing a more stressed out version of her television persona who may or may not have a screw loose.
	www.movie-list.com /reviews.php?id=abandon (503 words)

	Holmes and excellent cast get 'Abandon'-ed in new film - The Daily Texan - Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Abandon feels a lot like one of Holmes' first films, Disturbing Behavior, which as a Stepford Wives set in high school and directed by a promising TV writer and first time director David Nutter, went in the wrong direction and wasn't able to recover.
		That film was marred by test screenings, which allegedly took away the film's edge, and one can't help but feel while watching Abandon that the studio forced Gaghan to make cuts for the PG-13 rating the film bears, to appeal to Holmes' teenage audience.
		Unfortunately, almost everyone involved with Abandon has made better films and the real tragedy is that some of these people may never be involved as much in a project after such a disaster.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /news/2002/10/21/Entertainment/Holmes.And.Excellent.Cast.Get.abandonEd.In.New.Film-498559.shtml (721 words)

	Modamag.com \| Abandon (Movie Review) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This film weaves the talents and stories of those associated with it into a beautiful tapestry of character study.
		Not a big fan, I thought it would be hard for this gawky, stuck-up-but-trying-not-to-show-it actress to carry a film, but the part is written so for her yet totally against type that Katie is able to create an entirely new character separate from Joey Potter and yet oddly reminiscent thereof.
		Best about this film (besides the supporting characters) are Gagan's innovations in storytelling and his use of music to add depth to his scenes.
	www.modamag.com /abandon.htm (1779 words)

	Abandon
		His complete detestability seemed to permeate the film in a way, because he was the only character with a high level of energy on screen.
		Films rated below five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film - this score is roughly equivalent to one and a half stars from the critics or even less, depending on just how far below five the rating is.
		Any film rated C- or better is recommended for fans of that type of film.
	www.fakes.net /abandon.htm (1303 words)

	Xiibaro Reviews: Punch-Drunk Love, The Truth About Charlie, The Phantom of the Opera, Abandon, and Ghost Ship
		The film does find some humor in these events -- especially in Barry's attempt to convince the restaurant manager that he was not at fault, despite the bloody cuts on his hands -- but never establishes them as anything more than Barry's emotional outbursts.
		The film looks at the Paris Opera as it is terrorized by the Phantom and his obsession with one of the singers.
		However, the film's most out-of-place shot is the one that remains most memorable for those who have actually seen the film throughout.
	xiibaro.hypermart.net /archive/04/43.html (2339 words)

	Review: Abandon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Abandon moves at a glacial pace which is not justified by the poor character development.
		Throughout the film, Katie and Wade remain cardboard-thin, unrealistic types: the intense student who's not nearly as "together" as she seems to be and the alcoholic cop trying to put his life back together.
		The film ceases to be boring when she comes on screen, then lapses back into its comatose state when she departs.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/a/abandon.html (499 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Abandon at Epinions.com
		A film that seemed to go in-and-out of theaters, "Abandon" is a somewhat intelligent, moody thriller that focuses on teenagers, but seems structured and toned for adults.
		As the film opens, we find that Catherine is in the middle of one of the busiest times of the year, facing finals, papers and a job opportunity looming on the horizon.
		"Abandon" is a strange case; I liked the performances, I liked the actors and I liked the characters, but I almost wished that they were in a different movie.
	www.epinions.com /content_107346169476 (1074 words)

	Abandon
		The pressures of academic life weigh heavily upon her and the suddenly rekindled investigation by the police into the disappearance of her wealthy boyfriend Embry (Charles Hunnam), missing without a trace for two years, increases the burden.
		The title is apt, as in "abandon all hope," for this non-thrilling psychological thriller.
		Katie Burke is at the point in her young adult life where her academic studies are about to end and her career-oriented future is beginning to unfold.
	www.reelingreviews.com /abandon.htm (1042 words)

	Augusta Georgia: Applause:At the Movies: 'Abandon' 10/18/02
		First, as a quiet, sneaky little film that hypnotically creeps across the screen, with an intelligence and restraint that make it a satisfying change from the typical blunt-instrument-to-the-head approach of most thrillers.
		Second, as the film that announces the arrival of Katie Holmes as bankable leading-lady material and Stephen Gaghan - an Academy Award winner for his "Traffic" screenplay - as one of those ambidextrous types who may prove as good at directing as writing.
		The film credits the story as "suggested by" Sean Desmond's novel "Adams Fall," in which the campus protagonist was a male student haunted by the suicide of his freshman roommate.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/101802/app_124-5796.shtml (618 words)

	A Movie Parable: Abandon
		However, as stated earlier, the conclusion of the film leaves the viewer with a distorted sense compared to the rest of the movie.
		Throughout the film, Katie is haunted and even tormented by the departure of her father when she was very young.
		His leaving planted a feeling of abandonment within her that she is always trying to fill.
	www.christiancritic.com /mov2002/abandon.asp (621 words)

	Film Blather: Abandon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Abandon, the directorial debut of Oscar-winning Traffic writer Stephen Gaghan, intends to be as oppressively gloomy as possible, and it succeeds.
		The ads for the film are already screaming "Don't give away the ending!" I won't, no worries, but it's worth noting that the twist Gaghan presents isn't much of a conclusion; I was intrigued, assuming the movie would go somewhere with it, but no: the credits roll just as things are getting interesting.
		Indeed, the film is an odd combination of patience-testing arthouse drama and schlocky teen thriller (though it does earn points for being set in college rather than high school).
	www.ultimate-movie.com /abandon.html (631 words)

	Abandon DVD Review at The Z Review UK DVD reviews
		Abandon plays like the kind of character study that, with a subject so beautiful, it is not only the supporting character who becomes infatuated but also the audience.
		The psychological factor in Abandon lies within Katie Burke and her failure to cope with the fact that the men she meets and grows to like (perhaps even love) abandon her.
		Abandon is a film that underneath is something worthwhile and entrancing, but as a whole fails to elicit any kind of suspenseful or mysterious response to which the advertising plays to.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /dvdreviews/a/abandon.htm (672 words)

	Abandon
		The really sad thing about Abandon is that the ending is pretty good, and once the main theme of the film becomes evident, the story makes more sense.
		While it contains the usual film clips, this is a cut above the typical featurette, as it offers a great deal of interview footage with Gaghan, as he explains his thoughts behind the creation of the film, the casting process, and the production.
		Abandon is a muddled mess that gives the audience no likable characters and no real drama until well into the third act.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/A-D/abandon.html (936 words)

	DVD REVIEW: "ABANDON"
		His character and resultant performance are as lethargic as the rest of the film and we thus don't care about him either.
		In the end, the film's conclusion may explain everything that transpired before it, but the trip to get there is so slow and uneventful that you might not care.
		Abandon (Widescreen Edition) is now available for purchase by clicking here.
	www.screenit.com /dvd/2002/abandon.html (915 words)

	IGN: Abandon Review
		The film is beautifully photographed, and it's evident writer/director Stephen Gaghan (he wrote Traffic) uses the camera to examine the pain and pensiveness of Holmes' character, college student Katie Burke.
		The film is primarily told through Katie's point of view, of course, and it's a purposefully unreliable point of view; i.e.
		And the transitions are either unnoticeable and, in a couple cases in which the film seems to have magically jumped forward in time, somewhat abrupt.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/374/374706p1.html (823 words)

	ABANDON + DAWSON'S CREEK: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON - DVDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Abandon is a damn good movie despised in some quarters because, he hypothesized, it's not very comforting, because it subverts the entrenched John Landis approach to depicting college life, and because it's determined to be meaningful within the framework of a supernatural pot-boiler.
		The film stars Katie Holmes, whose career has caught its second-wind with the DVD releases of Abandon and the first season of "Dawson's Creek", in addition to the title role in 2003's Sundance favourite Pieces of April and appearances in Keith Gordon's upcoming The Singing Detective and the Joel Schumacher thriller Phone Booth.
		Holmes' performance on "Dawson's Creek" is less removed from Abandon now than it was at the beginning of the series, when her nose was constantly to the ground and her shoulders were turned so sheepishly inward you worried for the future of her posture.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/abandondawsonscreeks1.htm (947 words)

	ABANDON
		Abandon is the first film Holmes has really had to carry on her own, and — unfortunately for her — it's a bit of an unwieldy mess.
		Abandon's biggest problem, other than its frustrating choppiness (it seems like many sections were haphazardly excised without any thought as to how it would affect other scenes), is with Catherine's character.
		Abandon's score and photography, respectively from Requiem For a Dream's dream team of Clint Mansell and Matthew Libatique, are terrific, making the film much more dark and moody than the script would on its own.
	www.sick-boy.com /abandon.htm (480 words)

	The Future Of Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He discussed the convergence of film and digital technologies and the role that he expects Kodak to play in the future of the motion imaging industry.
		I believe film will remain an extremely viable medium, and that some of the most interesting progress will be made in the convergence of hybrid technologies.
		The key to all this is that there are more details on the original film than we were able to access before, and now advancements in digital systems are starting to allow us to take advantage of the full measure of information in a frame of film.
	www.kodak.com /US/en/motion/v2/v2futureOfFilm.jhtml (1398 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Advertisement feature \| Abandon all rope
		As anyone who has seen the film knows, Joe Simpson breaks his leg severely while descending the mountain in bad weather conditions.
		His partner decides to lower him down the rest of the way, 300 metres at a time, but is forced to cut the rope and abandon Simpson when he is lowered off a ravine.
		In Macdonald's film we get the impression that Yates and Simpson (especially Simpson) are over-confident to the point of arrogance to attempt their climb without the proper preparation.
	film.guardian.co.uk /reelexperiences/story/0,14617,1267011,00.html (786 words)

	OnWisconsin Live Movies: Abandon
		There's a nail-biter to be found in "Abandon," but the creative forces behind the film fail to find a middle ground capable of supporting the film's wild swings between illusion and reality.
		There's a nail-biter to be found in "Abandon," but the creative forces behind the film - most notably writer-director Gaghan, who won an Oscar for his screenplay for "Traffic" (2000) - fail to find a middle ground capable of supporting the film's wild swings between illusion and reality.
		The film gets so bogged down in style that its lack of substance is all the more apparent.
	www.onwisconsin.com /movies/movie.asp?id=650 (374 words)

	Abandon (2002): Reviews
		Abandon tags Katie Holmes as a talented actor with surprising range and vast, untapped potential - so much, in fact, that watching her, one can almost overlook the film's many flaws.
		Stephen Gaghon's "Abandon" is remarkable in that it illustrates textbook usage of everything a film of its depth should It's the kind of first feature I'd like to make.
		Abandon is a smart and well acted film, but the plot isn't put together very well.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/abandon (980 words)

	Abandon: Widescreen - Checkpoint on DVD - MovieWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As Katie struggles to finish her thesis and secure a job with a prestigious firm in the city, she must contend with the reappearance of Embry, who seems intent on destroying her life.
		The film dwells in the murky territory between realistic college drama and abstract psychological thriller, making it an unsettling and suspenseful experience.
		She faces exams, completion of her thesis, and a competitive interview process, all of which is compounded when a police detective, Wade Handler (Bratt), begins investigating the two year-old disappearance of her boyfriend, Embry Langan (Hunnam), a young man whose memory haunts and obsesses her.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?097363380528 (397 words)

	Abandon (2002): Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam - PopMatters Film Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Her thesis is due and she's having nightmares about her father leaving her when she was three (these stark and snowy scenes offer one angle on the film's title, though there are others, including the "abandon" she thinks she should be feeling as she looks out on a future so full of conventional promise).
		At its best, Abandon is clever and ambitious, insidiously drawing you inside Katie's troubled, "under pressure" mind (or out of it: check the corpse's point of view from the bottom of a conveniently located and never-before noted pool of water, for instance).
		But where the film's inconsistency of tone and perspective is occasionally challenging, it eventually just feels like cheating.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/a/abandon.shtml (1415 words)

	Boston.com / Business / Technology / Film here to stay despite digital growth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In fact, Kodak is still developing new films, and has no plans to abandon the market, according to spokesman Gerard Meuchner.
		In the long term, however, it's seems clear that film is destined to be a niche of the photography business.
		Sensitized glass plates, which lost out to film in the '20s and '30s, were still made by Kodak until a few years ago.
	www.boston.com /business/technology/articles/2003/12/23/film_here_to_stay_despite_digital_growth (603 words)

	Movie Review - Abandon - eFilmCritic
		Abandon is a movie that must have put its studio, Paramount, into such a dither that it had no choice but to embark on an ad campaign that reveals numerous things we should not be aware of upon walking in.
		Even the title of the film gives away an aspect of the story that is best kept as a seemingly insignificant sidenote.
		Katie Burke (Katie Holmes) is facing the everyday pressure of an impending graduating college student; a thesis paper to finish, job interviews to go on and the angst that her place in the business world may not really amount to more than just a cog in the wheel.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=6232&reviewer=198 (665 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Abandon > Printer Friendly
		Abandon doesn't provide either until late in the movie, culminating in a plot twist that turns the entire runtime up to that point on its head.
		Abandon is a film with lofty aspirations, and perhaps Stephen Gaghan aimed too high for his debut behind the camera.
		Among the various topics covered are his specific goals for the film's score, his insistence that his dog play a prominent role in the movie, the presence of two Darren Aronofsky alums onboard, and how directing has shaped the way he approaches screenwriting.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=5800 (1661 words)

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		Abandon seems to aim for brilliance, but achieves no success.
		The film is not, however, able to emulate the greatness usually associated with Shyamalan’s films.
		Most of the film is spent on developing the two dimensional characters which do nothing but bore the audience for the duration of the picture.
	wnrn.rlc.net /docs/91sec/abandon.html (184 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With "Abandon," she demonstrates dimension and complexity that could nudge her toward the front ranks of Hollywood's young actresses.
		The twist at the end of "Abandon" is no big surprise, though Gaghan tosses in enough red herrings to keep viewers guessing.
		Toss in traumatic girlhood recollections of abandonment by her father, and Katie is a basket case in the making.
	www.lsj.com /things/moviereviews/p_abandon.html (418 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Abandon
		Abandon takes its first of several bizarre turns when Katie begins to sees Embry around campus.
		And Handler’s battle with booze is such a lame tool for dramatic effect, we’re never convinced of his struggle to stay sober.
		Slow to get motivated and left with nowhere to go, Abandon tries on a number of hats – stalker boyfriend thriller, fl-widow erotica, public service announcement against date rape – before dovetailing into a sappy Hallmark TV movie that could be titled Daddy, Don’t Leave Me, or something equally generic.
	filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/adeb58357c90842b88256c53006bb490?OpenDocument (861 words)

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