Abandon (2002)

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Studio: Paramount Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Oct 18, 2002
Running Time: 99 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
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Katie is under pressure. She faces exams, completion of her thesis, and a competitive interview process, all of which is compounded when a police detective, Wade Handler, begins investigating the two year-old disappearance of her boyfriend, Embry Langan, a young man whose memory haunts and obsesses her. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as Handler is discovering surprising new facts about Embry and his possible connection to another disappearance from campus.
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Katie Burke
Wade Handler
Embry Larkin
Samantha Harper
Amanda Luttrell
Robert Hanson
Mousy Julie
Harrison Hobart
Lt. Bill Stayton
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rating October 18, 2002
It’s a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit. Dawson cutie Katie Holmes plays a campus brain who helps a hottie cop (Benjamin Bratt) find her missing boyfriend (Charlie Hunnam). Crossing A Beautiful Mind with Sex Kittens Go to College, first-time director Stephen Gaghan (he wrote Traffic) causes a head-on collision.

PETER TRAVERS
(October 18, 2002)

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A young college student is haunted by memories of her boyfriend, who disappeared two years ago.

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Katie (Katie Holmes) is a hard-working college student eager to complete her thesis. Her gregarious boyfriend Embry (Charlie Hunnam) disappeared without a trace two years earlier, and police detective Wade Handler (Benjamin Bratt) has started investigating the case again. Katie is plagued by memories of Embry, and her flashbacks, triggered by familiar settings such as the choir room where they… Continued