Abandon is a 2002 American thriller film released by Paramount Pictures and Touchstone Pictures. It was written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, starring Katie Holmes as a college student whose boyfriend disappeared two years previously. Despite being set at an American university, much of the movie was filmed in Canada at McGill University's McConnell Hall. It is based on the book Adams Fall by Sean Desmond. The book was re-titled Abandon for the movie tie-in paperback printing. The film co-stars Zooey Deschanel and Gabrielle Union, with Benjamin Bratt playing the detective investigating the... boyfriend's disappearance. It received generally negative reviews, with Variety magazine dismissing it as "a tricked-up Fatal Attraction wannabe". Coincidentally, Fatal Attraction was also released by Paramount. The movie starts off with Katie Burke sitting on some stairs. Her friend Sam goes with her for a walk. Katie is going to a workshop for some sort of agency that she wants to work at when she gets out of college. We see that Katie is also under severe pressure to complete her thesis.
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| Release date: | October 18, 2002 |
| Directed by: | Stephen Gaghan |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 99 Minutes |
| Producer: | Gary Barber, Lynda Obst, Edward Zwick, Roger Birnbaum |
| Editor: | Mark Warner |
| Music by: | Clint Mansell |
| Cinematography: | Matthew Libatique |
| Screenplay by: | Stephen Gaghan |
| Adapted from: | Adams Fall |
| Genre: | Thriller |