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 Barnes & Noble A surprisingly intelligent, effective thriller scripted and directed by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Traffic, Abandon provides erstwhile teen idol Katie Holmes with her most challenging role to date. The Dawson’s Creek star portrays Catherine Burke, a brilliant college student who’s on the fast track to corporate success. Having just aced a crucial interview with a prospective employer, she hunkers down to do some serious studying but is distracted by sudden, fleeting appearances of her ex-boyfriend, Embry Langan (Charlie Hunnam), who has been missing for over two years. Catherine, afraid that she is being stalked, seeks assistance from police detective Wade Mandler (Benjamin Bratt), who becomes infatuated with the overachieving campus beauty. Holmes invests her character with grace and charm, making the ambitious, intellectually gifted, emotionally distant young woman a more sympathetic figure. She, and such other cast members as Zooey Deschanel, Gabrielle Union, and Melanie Lynskey, benefit from Gaghan’s sure-footed direction and incisive scripting; his college students look, speak, and act in a manner more consistent with reality, and this attention to verisimilitude allows him to pull off an outlandish feat of narrative legerdemain without losing the audience. Abandon doesn’t rely on genre clichés, and for that reason it’s one of the most successful pictures of its kind that we’ve seen in many months -- as well as an impressive directorial debut for Gaghan. He supplies a commentary for the DVD, which also includes a "making of" documentary as well as numerous deleted and extended scenes. Ed Hulse Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
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