Abandon (film)

Abandon is a 2002 film about a college student trying to deal with a police investigation into her boyfriend's disappearance while also preparing for life after graduation.

Embry Larkin

 * You have no grace.


 * Sopranos, this piece was written by monks who believed in God. They're singing not to other monks but to God. They're singing about God to God. And you think I'm a tough audience.
 * This is the spirit dissolving in the music carrying up to God. Open up and let her rip. Don't perform... create. Say, 'Muse, I hate you, but I hate you on my knees.' Scream, 'I am the infantile center of the goddamn universe!' Everyone!


 * I go away for a while a look what happens. You let the whole place fall apart.


 * I won't make stupid threats but your not gonna run away with this guy because wherever you go, I can follow you.... even if it's to the woods in New Hampshire.


 * Why won't you yell....Come on I dare you.

Samantha Harper

 * They want Vietnamese orphans... and engineers. God, why wasn't I born a Vietnamese orphan?


 * I'll have a double order of escape fantasy and a side order of running away.

Dialogue

 * Male Interviewer: Tell us about a problem you've encountered.
 * Katie: My guidance counselor tried to keep me from applying to good schools. I thought she was my friend. She said she understood me and that I would be happier staying close to home, junior college or secretarial school. She hated me.
 * Male Interviewer: What action did you take?
 * Katie: I invited a senator who attended college here to speak at our school.
 * Male Interviewer: And what was the result?
 * Katie: I got a strong letter of recommendation from a U.S. Senator, was accepted early decision and they gave me lots of financial aid.
 * Male Interviewer: And what did you learn from this experience?
 * Katie: Truthfully?
 * Male Interviewer: Of course.
 * Katie: Mrs. Castleman was a sneaky bitch. It was the first time I was betrayed by someone I trusted. I looked up to her. I didn't come close to understanding the depth to which she resented me. I learned that people who help me, who invest in me become my partners, and my success is their success that relationships are symbiotic. I learned responsibility based on others' faith in me. I hope to be able to pay some dividends to those investors.




 * Female Interviewer: How many pennies do you think it would take to fill this room?
 * Katie: With or without us in it?




 * Amanda: Word is, you slaughtered it. I talked to Brian whose brother dates that cold fish, Susan. Did you really call some lady a bitch?
 * Katie: Slight exaggeration.
 * Amanda: Yeah, they saw sixty people and liked exactly two - you and a North Korean girl who speaks eight languages.
 * Katie: They said that?




 * Katie: Do you know where Harrison is?
 * Embry: The tree hugger? I don't really keep tabs on him
 * Katie: Have you seen him lately?
 * Embry: Wouldn't you like to know?
 * Katie: You piss me off like nobody else, you know that?
 * Embry: Yeah?
 * Katie: Yeah.
 * Embry: What are you gonna do about it, I want you to come away with me to the country house.
 * Katie: Where is Harrison?
 * Embry: I'll tell you at the country house.

Taglines

 * Watch who you leave behind...

Cast

 * Katie Holmes - Katie Burke
 * Benjamin Bratt - Wade Handler
 * Charlie Hunnam - Embry Larkin
 * Zooey Deschanel - Samantha Harper
 * Mark Feuerstein - Robert Hanson
 * Melanie Lynskey - Mousy Julie
 * Philip Bosco - Professor Jergensen
 * Gabriel Mann - Harrison Hobart
 * Will McCormack - August
 * Gabrielle Union - Amanda Luttrell