![]() ![]() But that’s only the set-up for various drop-ins fromįellow students, such as neurotic, hair-twisting “Mousy Julie” (that’s Melanie Nights and early mornings in the campus library, in hope of finishing her (very Yes, Katie (Katie Holmes) spends her late Theme of the movie – whereas, in fact, it seems hardly to register at all, exceptĪs a recurring plot detail or alibi. ![]() Accordingly, various reviews took that as the principal Overachieving university students, vying for corporate jobs, aiming for theīest grades, blablabla. Inspiration for Abandon came from a book apparently probing the problem of stress (of all kinds) among Played a bit cooler than at standard Oliver Stone temperature. As a “youth movie” of sorts, Abandon has more in common with another Gaghan script, for BarbaraĪnd almost nothing in common with his “global politics” action dramas, apartįrom an abiding and never particularly grounded element of general hysteria, ![]() William Friedkin’s Rules of Engagement (2000) and Steven Soderbergh’s version of Traffic (2000), andīefore his better-known writer-director effort, Syriana (2005). It marked the directorial debut of Stephen Gaghan, after scripting This is an odd mess (as opposed to a hot mess) of aįilm.
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