Line #31 Film/Abduction


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3	A 2011 action movie directed by Creator/JohnSingleton, his last film as a director, starring Creator/TaylorLautner, Creator/LilyCollins, Creator/AlfredMolina, and Creator/SigourneyWeaver and produced by Creator/{{Lionsgate}}.
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5	Nathan Price is an average High School Senior - going to parties, riding his motorcycle, and daydreaming about the girl next door. Then one day while doing research for a sociology paper, he finds his own face on a missing persons website. Before he can think, the people he has always thought of as his parents die as assassins arrive to collect him, and he finds himself on the run from bounty hunters and the CIA.
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8	!!Tropes in this movie:
9	* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Gilly, Nathan's friend who scores him fake [=IDs=], train tickets, ''game-day playoff tickets'', and large sums of cash in short order. [[Headscratchers/HomePage What on earth is this kid involved in to give him such fluid resources at his age?]]
10	* BoundAndGagged: Karen on the [[spoiler: train. She escapes.]]
11	%%* ChangelingFantasy: Pretty much the whole plot.
12	* ChekhovsGun: The baseball tickets, the fake [=IDs=], the phone in Martin's apartment.
13	* FakingTheDead: Frank and an aide lie amongst the rubble in the diner as the shooters after Nathan come in to look for him - and get capped for their troubles.
14	* FruitCart: Nachos during the chase at the park.
15	%%* GirlNextDoor: Karen.
16	* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Nathan is chased through PNC Park, knocking over many people - but this does not attract the eyes of security.
17	* HollywoodLaw:
18	** Nathan's birth certificate says "State of Pennsylvania", but Pennsylvania is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth#U.S._states Commonwealth]].
19	** Also, Nathan rides around on his motorcycle without a helmet - but PA laws say you ''must'' wear one until you are 21 years of age. Looking that young, he would be stopped for sure.
20	* TheMole: [[spoiler: Frank is on the list of people who sold state secrets]]. It has much less bearing on the plot than you'd think.
21	%%* MysteriousParent: And Nathan's Dad wants to stay that way.
22	* NeverTrustATitle: The movie is called ''Abduction'', so guess who gets/got abducted! Give up? ''Nobody.'' Karen gets very temporarily kidnapped while on the train, but hardly enough so to qualify for the title.
23	* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Frank takes Nathan and Karen out to eat after chasing them for quite a while.
24	* ObliviousAdoption: Nathan looks ''nothing'' like his "parents", yet he's still a little angsty when he finds out.
25	%%* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Nathan.
26	* PassThePopcorn: "I don't know much about baseball, but I do like popcorn."
27	* PoorCommunicationKills: Nathan's family was hardly straight about him being adopted, nor did Nathan go straight to his parents when he began to suspect that he was. Folks died.
28	* RemovedFromThePicture: Nathan's baby picture was found to be cropped once they find an artifact of an arm in it.
29	* ThrillerOnTheExpress: The protagonists try to leave for Kansas by train. It doesn't work out well.
30	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A man is gunned down by a sniper in broad daylight outside of a busy baseball stadium. No one outside of the main characters notices.
31	%%* WildTeenParty: The movie starts out with one.

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