While Brittany Murphy’s passing last December was certainly tragic, her film career hadn’t exactly been worth speaking about for a number of years. Do you remember “Across The Hall” or “Deadline”? Neither do we. So we can’t say we’re too surprised that her final film, the psychological thriller “Abandoned” is headed straight-to-DVD.
Anchor Bay will release the film on DVD and BluRay on August 24th. If you’ve been feeling a lack of ridiculous thrillers in your life, this one might fit the bill. You could read the synopsis below or you can skip right to the end of the post and let the low-rent trailer give away every twist of the story instead:
“Abandoned” follows Mary Walsh (Murphy) as she delivers boyfriend Kevin (Dean Cain, “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman”) to a hospital for a routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he is nowhere to be found. The hospital administrator (Mimi Rogers, “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery”) can’t find any record of him, and a police search turns up nothing.
Increasingly frantic, Mary is taken to a staff psychiatrist, Dr. Bensley (Peter Bogdanovich, “The Sopranos”) who pronounces her unstable. Now, she must not only find her missing boyfriend, but prove her own sanity. When a stranger informs Mary he knows of Kevin’s whereabouts, but demands a $10 million ransom, Mary realizes that to save herself and the man she loves, she must use any means necessary.
Wait a minute? Peter Bogdanovich is in this? We’re not sure how or why he wandered on to the set of this one, but we hope he at least bought a few new ascots or some weird Orson Welles ephemera with his paycheck. RIP Brittany Murphy. You deserved better than this.
