2010 · drama · mystery · thriller
Abandoned
Directed by Michael Feifer1h 28m2010
Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished.
Our read: Abandoned (2010) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · mystery · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / mystery, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
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