Abandoned

Plot synopsis:
Mary Walsh (Brittany Murphy), a bank manager, accompanies her boyfriend Kevin Peterson (Dean Cain) to the hospital for outpatient surgery on his leg. She is told by nurse Amanda (America Young) at the hospital that Kevin's operation will take approximately an hour and recommends that Mary go to the cafeteria for coffee to pass the time. In the cafeteria, Mary meets Cooper (Tim Thomerson), who she thinks is just an ordinary man.As the day goes by, Mary doesn't hear anything about her boyfriend or how his surgery went so she decides to look for him. She is told by different hospital personnel that Kevin was never in the hospital for surgery, and that he is not even in the hospital's computer system, and also that his supposed surgeon, a Dr Harding, is on vacation. Mary then calls the police and tells them her boyfriend is missing from the hospital, and a Detective called Franklin (Jay Pickett) is assigned to the case. Detective Franklin arrives and searches the entire hospital for Kevin and also speaks with several employees and describes Kevin and asks if they have ever seen him. Also, the head of hospital security named John Holloway (Scott Anthony Leet) checks his security tapes for any sighting of Kevin and then tells Mary he has found no record of him ever being in the hospital. The hospital's director, Victoria Markham (Mimi Rogers) also gets involved and she cannot find Kevin's name in the hospital computer records. All three meet up with Mary again and listen to Mary's story and are now skeptical that she is telling the truth. Surveillance cameras may have recorded the nape of the neck of somebody who could or could not be Kevin. In her cellphone, Mary has a photo of them in love against the sun, so that the photograph could be of almost anyone. Next, Mary phones Kevin's cellphone, but the number doesn't exist. During their discussion, Mary accidentally drops her bottle of antidepressant pills on the floor. The director picks up the bottle and then hands it to the hospitals head of psychiatry, Dr. Markus Bensley (Peter Bodganovich), who has just joined the discussion at the request of the director. He comments that it is a very strong dose and then requests that Mary accompany him, supposedly to further discuss her story. Once Mary is inside the psychiatrist's office, she pleads with him that she is telling the truth and that time is being wasted talking to her when they should all be looking for her boyfriend. Dr. Bensley tells her that her mind is playing tricks on her and that it is entirely possible that she invented a missing boyfriend because several months earlier Mary's mother died in a hospital. Mary is very upset and asks for a moment alone and Dr. Bensley tells her to take all the time she needs and that he will be in the next room which is his office. After the psychiatrist leaves the room, Mary also leaves the room and goes back to the hospital room where she was last with Kevin. Detective Franklin finds her there and tells her about his losing his partner in a shootout and also that he and his wife are getting a divorce. He tells her he knows what she is going through, and listening to him convinces Mary to let Dr. Bensley known that he can do with her whatever he wants and then Mary leaves the detective alone in the room.Mary decides to search the hospital herself for Kevin, finds some hospital scrubs and changes into these. In order to avoid capture by security who is now looking for her, Mary ends up hiding in the hospital morgue. Her cell phone rings and it is Kevin. He says he has been kidnapped, that he doesn't know by whom, doesn't know where he is, and that she shouldn't talk to anyone or trust anyone because he doesn't know who is involved in his kidnapping. He asks her where she is and she shines her cell phone light around the room and realizes she is in the hospital morgue because she sees dead bodies. She tells Kevin where she is and then she hears something over the phone that sounds like Kevin's abductors have found him talking with her over a phone. Mary then hears the call abruptly end.Mary decides to leave the hospital, and while she is fleeing, she is hit by a car in the parking structure, and is found and put in a hospital room because she has suffered a concussion. While in her hospital bed, the man named Cooper, who she had previously met in the hospital cafeteria, visits her and reveals that he is one of the kidnappers and that he wants her to wire ten million dollars to a secure bank account. She attempts to do this with the laptop he has with him but she can't get a signal to do so. She tells him that she needs to get to a computer inside the hospital with a hard line. Cooper agrees to this change in plans but gives her very little time to do it and tells her to meet him in a sublevel of the hospital once the transfer is completed. Cooper leaves and Mary manages to leave her room undetected and uses a computer in the hospital administration office to wire the money. All that is left is to send a confirmation message from her Smart phone.Mary then goes to the hospital sublevel and meets up with the John, the hospital's head of security. She realizes that he's in on the plot to kidnap Kevin and Cooper enters dragging Kevin. Nurse Amanda is with Cooper. Mary rushes to Kevin and hugs him and asks if he is okay. Kevin then reveals that he is in on the plot and that he was never kidnapped. Cooper reveals that he met Kevin when they were both in prison together. Mary is then grabbed and held by John as Kevin, Amanda and Cooper leave the basement. It is obvious that John has been instructed to kill Mary after they leave.John pulls a gun on Mary but she gets free from him and runs. He chases her and she manages to hit him with a baseball bat. He falls to the ground and apparently dies, and his gun slides across the floor. Meanwhile, Kevin phones John to see if he has gotten rid of Mary yet, but Mary reaches into John's jacket and answers his phone and Kevin guesses that it is her breathing that he hears on the other end of the call. Kevin then decides to drive back to the hospital and deal with Mary himself.Cooper and Kevin chase Mary around the parking structure and the hospital. Mary shoots Cooper with John's gun, which she picked up after she hit him with the bat. Kevin then comes after Mary and just as she is about to be shot by Kevin, he is shot by Detective Franklin, who has surprisingly returned to the hospital from his apartment after having read the last pages of a paperback book that he found on a chair in Kevin's hospital room and took home with him after Mary left Kevin's hospital room. Kevin falls over a railing and hangs on for a few moments and calls to Mary but then falls several feet to his death.The book the Detective found and read was inscribed by Kevin to Mary and he wrote to her in the book that it was the best book he'd ever read. Although we are shown a scene with the Detective reading the book, the scene moves quickly, and shows only a few lines of text with the pages Detective Franklin is reading, mentioning a knee operation, an unstable woman, a kidnapping, and making the woman believe a kidnapping and the paying of money.The last scene shows Detective Franklin helping Mary walk back through the hospital parking structure. He tells her that he figured out what was really going on from the book and he shows it to her. She scans the last few pages and then comments that Kevin couldn't even come up with something original. Mary tells Detective Franklin that she will be fine, that she will just keep on living.Just before the final credits roll, there is a dedication of the film to the memory of Brittany Murphy. FYI: This was the last film she made before her death on December 20, 2009.

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Review:
You'll notice that the guns sound like cap guns.Beyond its predictability, I think what bothered me most was the amateurish acting of everyone except Murphy and the Lieutenant; even Cain was poor.
It had an very hitchcock like vibe to it as the innocent Mary Walsh who is played by the lovely Brittany Murphy what is tragically her last role is accused of being crazy when she reports that her boyfriend of 4 years is missing from the hospital and finds out that they have no record of him being there.
The acting was mostly on the weaker side but Brittany Murphy's performances always has this charm to them but you can sadly tell that her state of health wasn't good in this movie and it looked like they tried to hide it by putting a lot of makeup on her but her hair looked greasy and crusty it was tragic to see.
Overall it wasn't the best movie ever and I've seen it done better before but if you like Brittany Murphy you should check it out because she pretty much saves the movie from completely sucking but don't expect anything out of the ordinary.
Brittany Murphy looked like she was about to die.
It's a drama/mystery/suspense flick that for some reason went direct to video.Brittany drops off her boyfriend (Dean Cain) at the hospital for routine, out patient surgery.
Brittany gives a very good performance as the increasingly worried girl friend, seemingly losing the only man she has really connected with in a long time, or ever.
Peter Bogdanovich is also good as the creepy psychiatrist who suspects Brittany is suffering from a mental break down, a suspicion fueled by her current high dose anti-depressant meds and an unlikely story reeking of paranoia.Supporting cast include Mimi Rogers as the clueless hospital administrator, Jay Pickett as the police detective with his own issues who is still good enough to follow the clues to the end, and Scott Anthony Leet as the intimidating security guard.
Some (including me) might think it fairly obvious based on the plot clues, but that part is only the beginning of the twists.As Brittany's final performance, this one is good enough to make you want to watch again sometime.
She was also suffering from pneumonia.Dean Cain does a fine job of playing her mysterious boyfriend, able to play the good guy well and leave you wondering about his motivations because he has played villainous roles since his Superman days.
If you like what you see it's a nice movie to have in a collection, not a must-buy, but if you like Brittany Murphy and want to own her last screen appearance then I recommend getting this.
It starts out well and keeps a good mystery going until one point in the film where you knew where everything was heading down a very worn path made by much better films like Double Jeopardy.
There is a germ of a good idea in this film, playing to the common fear of hospitals and the lack of control one feels in the hands of doctors and administrators.But the production values are so cheap and direction unimaginative that it would be embarrassing quality for TV.
Aside from Ms Murphy (for we shall not speak ill of the dead) the acting is almost universally terrible.The entire thing appears to be shot in a few rooms, stairwells and a parking garage with one camera, while odd music plays constantly in an effort to generate tension that a script riddled with implausible dialog cannot.
In Los Angeles, the manager of bank Mary Walsh (Brittany Murphy) brings her boyfriend Kevin Peterson (Dean Cain) to the County Memorial Hospital for an orthopedic surgery of ligaments of his left knee with Dr. Harding.
Mary flees from his office and seeks out Kevin alone disclosing the truth about her prince charming."Abandoned" is the last chapter of Kevin's book; and also the last chapter of the life of the promising actress Brittany Murphy.
The hair of Brittany Murphy is awful and she looks very tired in this film.
The late Brittany Murphy turns in a riveting performance as a possibly emotionally disturbed woman whose boyfriend may or may not have been abducted from a hospital during a routine appointment.
Not many people know about it, and some are quick to point out the flaws of the film, but I think that if you enjoy a movie, who cares about what's wrong with it!
It's so sad that Britney Murphy has to do movies like that, on last years of her life..
ABANDONED – TRASH IT ( F ) It's so sad that Britney Murphy has to do movies like that, on last years of her life.
The acting was garbage, other than Brittany Murphy.The script also crap, the story itself...totally played out and seemed familiar the whole time.
The acting was good, the story was interesting (I had a pretty bad idea of where the story was going) and it was engaging from the beginning to the end.
Because it make the story more interesting and the viewer will have question in mind about the whole.Besides, i don't know why, but Brittany Murphy acting skill in this movie is not very good.
Los Angeles bank manager Brittany Murphy (as Mary Walsh) accompanies her boyfriend to the hospital.
He and the staff try to find Cain, but begin to wonder if Murphy may be crazy...Murphy's hair looks like it hasn't been washed in weeks; also, there a distinct line showing her darker roots.
That there seems to be something seriously wrong only adds to the sadness upon hearing the "Abandoned" star died before this mystery was released.** Abandoned (8/24/10) Michael Feifer ~ Brittany Murphy, Dean Cain, Jay Pickett, Tim Thomerson.
Honestly don't know why this movie is getting bad reviews, I thought it was pretty good.
Anyway this movie gets straight to the point it and doesn't drag on at all and I thought Brittany Murphy did a decent performance in this movie.
There were a few times I was ready to give up early on, and I imagine others will be, but it's worth sticking with it.Some of the acting was weak, but some of it gets better as the movie goes on, and the story starts to compensate.Possibly the worst aspect of the movie was the main lead's make up.
The opening scene - of Mary Walsh (Brittany Murphy) being chased through a parking garage - drew me in right away as I wondered what was happening.
Mary had taken her boyfriend of four months - Kevin (Dean Cain) to an almost closed hospital for routine day surgery.
There's a tragic feeling overhanging this movie, because it was Brittany Murphy's last movie before her tragic death from a combination of pneumonia and anemia (there is also a conspiracy theory that alleges she was murdered) about six months after this was filmed, and I think that people are perhaps looking too hard for flaws in her performance as if to say "look - she was already sick." People complain about her hair?
In the same situation (if I took my wife to a hospital for day surgery and she then inexplicably disappeared) I think I'd be a lot more out of control and unreasonable than Mary was.I'm not under the illusion that this movie is without flaws.
As it turned out, those were the only reasons to watch this movie.While there are a few holes in it, this plot could make for a reasonably good film.
However, all similarities to Hitchcock's classic end there, especially when it comes to quality.Murphy plays a young woman, Mary Walsh, who takes her boyfriend, Kevin Peterson (played by Dean Cain), to have outpatient surgery on his leg.
In the end, there is just too much wrong here to recommend this to anyone but Brittany's fans and those who have nothing else to do for an hour and a half.All of us who enjoyed her acting and remember her at her best will miss Brittany.
this wasn't a bad movie, but Mary is a manager at a bank.
Brittany Murphy looks like a living doll, her lips are huge, her hair almost had a life of its own due to the amount of gel, the makeup is just too much.
Don't get me wrong, I know she was a great actress, but in this movie she just gave up, as if she knew this was so bad it wasn't worth the effort.
It's not even good for a popcorn time.This movie is bad and it shouldn't have been made..
Good movie and concept but Murphy looks a hot mess!.
This was Murphy's last movie and she looked like she was completely sick in this movie.
Although the movie had a good plot with a great theme, I just couldn't concentrate and get pass the horrible look of Brittany Murphy.
I can honestly say that the movie is great (I've seen it more than once) but the acting and look of Murphy bombed!
Poor Brittany Looked like a Clown in the Movie.
Perhaps some clever writer has come up with an interesting plot twist to this tired old story line.Maybe in some other movie, but not here.
As with so many other films, the set up is not bad, not great, but more than watchable, mainly because of Brittany Murphy.
Sorry, but I think a little more detail than 'I think she might be mental' would be forthcoming from a believable character in this role.And towards the end as a maniac, screaming, panting security guard looking to shoot Ms. Murphy's character is stalking her, he's running his mouth with a 'come out, come out, wherever you are' patter, as does everyone else trying to kill her.
Brittany Murphy was good, the movie not so..
Brittany Murphy did a good interpretation of her character, though the movie itself was so-so.
"Abandoned"is a average movie for me which keeps you in a world of great suspense and thrill throughout the run-time.The movie started well with full Adventurous disappearance of Brittany's boyfriend Kevin from the Hospital and the movie takes a great turn as detective cannot solve the mysterious puzzle.I think the story was presented by the Director magnificently.I love the twist at the end particularly and yet another turn at the very end.
How, then, can I claim to love him whom I've chosen not to know...which is the unbelievable thread to this "THRILL HER WITH ABANDON" that screams corrupted script from the beginning.Dean Cain's character of Kevin Peterson arrives at County Memorial Hospital as an outpatient to have orthopedic surgery.
He begs girlfriend Mary (Brittany Murphy) to promise she won't leave him when he's under (anesthetic) when hospital procedure wouldn't allow him to be "put under" anesthetic without a second party in the waiting area to drive him home afterward, thus giving his fear of her abandoning him no basis in fact.
But as manager of a Los Angeles bank and with the unread book Kevin's carried around the four months of their relationship in her purse to his added relief, Mary drops Kevin off at the door and tells him "I'll be right up," leaving him to enter the hospital alone when OUTPATIENT ADMISSIONS for every department is usually on the GROUND floor.
She arrives at the reception desk behind him and he's not in a nearby waiting area, where he would be seated behind other patients waiting for an ADMISSIONS SECRETARY to call his name, confirm his surgery, get his signature both of consent and to administer blood if needed and fit him with a computer-printed PATIENT WRISTBAND identifying him by his name, age, the hospital's name, the doctor's name, the date and his room number, if applicable; Mary would then have taken a seat next to him and shared his wait to be admitted to before-op.Yet in continued ignorance of the writers, rather than ask "Where is Kevin Peterson who's arrived here for orthopedic surgery with Dr. Whatever-His-First-Name-Is Harding?" when the nurse who is wearing no state-required picture ID tag asks how she can help, Mary asks, "Where is the OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT?" She then buys the lie out of the nurse's mouth that the hospital is shutting down for renovations on Saturday—-and when the main office of EVERY business--including the bank she manages--is closed on Saturday and will apply equally to the construction company renovating the hospital Monday through Friday during business hours.
And so, six minutes into the movie, bank manager Mary busy carrying out business on her phone, has missed ***TEN*** clues that she's being set up for foul play by the loving "boyfriend of four months" that she does not know and hasn't trusted her best girlfriend to meet yet as she falls for the nurse's continued lie that most of the hospital patients have already been moved west—-go through those doors and take the elevator up—-to ORTHOPEDIC OUTPATIENT ADMISSIONS Mary should have known the location of previously!
But darn it: this last send-off to Brittany Murphy would have been one hell of a thrill ride had the writers stuck to TRUE hospital protocol from the beginning and then found a way to cross up the middle--and if Mary and Kevin had only known each other four DAYS, rather than four months for subject matter believability!.
The so called "off the street" actors are no better or worse than the secondary characters of any non-blockbuster movie (they can't all be made for $200 million dollars like that piece of tard Atavar, James Cameron's only really bad movie despite being his most successful) Someone complained that no bank would trust an unstable woman with that money...SHE WASN'T UNSTABLE...that's the whole ****ing point of the movie.
No, this movie is not the first of its kind, nor will it be the last, and it is not going to be remembered for anything except that it is her last film, but it is still a d***ed entertaining 2 hours..
What happened to Dean Cain's career and what made Brittany Murphy take this role?
Mary Walsh (Brittany Murphy) takes her boyfriend Kevin (Dean Cain) to the hospital for some routine outpatient surgery on his leg.
He walks her from the building and the screen displays "In Memory of Brittany Murphy".OPINION: The movie is poorly written, and poorly filmed; it looks as tho it was filmed with a fairly small budget.
At the beginning Brittany Murphy is pale and sickly with dark rings under her eyes and messy, greasy looking hair.
I imagine the beginning portions were filmed last, probably right before she passed away.I wouldn't watch this again, and wouldn't really recommend it to anyone either unless they are A, die-hard Brittany Murphy fans or B, extremely bored and there is absolutely nothing else to do..
I thought Brittany was cute and was sorry to see her life ended so soon (in real life), but I was never a big fan of the cheesy romantic films, I did however think she did a great job in this movie despite her being obviously ill during filming.
Brittany checks her boyfriend into the hospital for routine out patient surgery.
She runs around the hospital in a frantic search as the staff try to catch her.Brittany Murphy's doll face is in nearly every scene.
The acting was good, the plot was so-so as the "is it real?" didn't carry through until the very end as the movie shifts from a suspense-thriller to an action-drama.If you enjoyed "Shutter Island", you might want to check out this movie or vice-versa..
A good twist of a movie but, it's sad that it was Murphy's last film!
I liked the fact it was turning from mystery to action, it kinda makes the film more interesting and good for your brain to guess what's happening.
This movie does put you off on going to a hospital for a week even after watching it!
*NO SPOILERS UNTIL VERY END - CLEARLY MARKED*As a fan of Brittany Murphy it truly saddens me that Abandoned turned out to be her last film due to the fact that it is a complete mess filled with nonsense.
This movie is very low budget and the acting is debatable at best but I am willing to overlook all of that if the plot is interesting and there is a good payoff in the end, something necessary in every basic mystery thriller with a twist.
I don't hate Abandoned because it was cheaply made - not every film has the luxury of having a big budget or access to well known actors - I hate it simply because it's awful.Mary (Murphy) and her boyfriend Kevin (Dean Cain) go to the hospital so he can have outpatient orthopedic surgery.
The Dr. that was supposedly doing his surgery wasn't working that day and the nurse, Amanda, that Mary saw with Kevin that morning didn't exist.What happened to her boyfriend?
One thing I must comment on is Brittany Murphy's hair/makeup in Abandoned.
I read that her husband did her makeup but she must have approved it before shooting which is something I just don't understand.3/10 - Bad acting (Brittany Murphy & Jay Picket are the exceptions), low budget look and awful awful plot and execution.
***************SPOILERS***********There was a lot of stupid nonsense in this movie but the 2 worst were:1) The main reason why I rated this film so low was the asinine plot point with the cop/book that was contingent on him saving the day in the end.
Brittany Murphy's last movie, she died about 8 months before it was released on DVD..
I was curious to see only for one reason, I always liked Brittany Murphy and I wanted to see her last movie.The movie isn't very good but has some interesting moments.
Now I want to re-watch many of her earlier movies.Brittany Murphy is Mary Walsh, and on this day she is going with her boyfriend of 4 months for a procedure at the hospital.
Anyway, after several hours she still isn't notified in the waiting room, then when she goes to find him the hospital has no record of his ever being there.Dean Cain is her boyfriend, Kevin Peterson.