An Abundance Of Katherines

An Abundance Of Katherines is a 2013 American Romantic Drama film written and directed by Rian Johnson starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Jennifer Lawrence, Dev Patel, David Kross, Margot Robbie, Cybill Shepherd, William Russ, Victoria Principal and Bill Murray.

The film is based off the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award winning young adult novel John Green and is distributed by Dreamworks Pictures SKG and Saturn Pictures.

The film shot in Bishop Hills, Texas and is slated for theatrical release January 19th, 2013.

Plot
Colin Singleton (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) is an incredibly intelligent youth, he a genius at mathmatical theorems and is waiting to have his eureka moment in which he will be the first to come up with his own theorem.

He is an introvert at his high school despite his boyish good looks and can't hold onto a relationship.

He is incredibly detached from his parents Malcolm (Bill Murray) and Pauline (Victoria Principal).

He fails to connect with his older brother James (Darren Criss) a popular varsity jock.

He eventually comes to solve a theorem but has it stolen by a fellow student who happens to be a Varsity Jock friend of his brother's.

He has a mental breakdown and then falls into deep depression.

He refuses to return to school and stops keeping on contact with his current girlfriend Katherine XIX (Kay Panabaker) the 19th Katherine he has dated and unbeknownst to him the very first Katherine he dated.

He eventually allows his comedic, Judy-Judy obsessed Muslim bestfriend Hassan Harbish (Dev Patel) back in and agrees to taking a road-trip with him help get over the theorem he discovered which was stolen from him and being dumped by Katherine.

The two end up breaking down in the rural town of Gutshot, Tennesse where they end up working for factory propietor Hollis Lee Evans (Cybill Shepherd) as a way of working up the money to pay for the repairs to Hassan's car.

They discover Hollis possesses an extremely beautiful tour guide daughter/school drop out and wild party girl Lindsay Lee Evans (Jennifer Lawrence).

Colin is brought along to his first ever party where he in a crowd of people is seperated from Hassan.

He is pushed by a Varsity Jock whilest intoxicated by alcohol hallucinates that the jock is indeed his brother's friend who stole the theorem he created back home.

He begins to yell at him and then is struck in the face.

Hassan then finds Colin who is being laid into and punches the jock starting a brawl which Lindsay breaks up.

Her and Hassan then tend to Colin and his injuries and walk him back to her house where she shows Hassan and Colin to their accomodations.

She tends to Colin's beaten up face and apologizes for the party.

Over the next few days Colin spends his days with Hassan working for Lindsay's kind mother Hollis and then by night hanging out with Lindsay who is engaged to her boyfriend Colin Manual who Hassan and Colin the protagonist refer to as the Other Colin.

She tells she's been ducking him and spending most her nights doing reckless things dodging grappling with the commitment of marriage.

Colin the protagonist seems disappointed to hear Lindsay possesses a boyfriend and is then with Hassan introduced to her bestfriend Katrina Somerville (Margot Robbie).

It is later then discovered that Colin Manual is cheating on Lindsay with Katrina and Lindsay comes to cut off all contact soon then staying with her grandmother.

Lindsay's overprotective father Martin (William Russ) comes to believe Colin Singleton is responsible and attempts to fight him.

However LIndsay comes to break up the fight as she had just darted home to collect the rest of her stuff.

She takes Colin away to a secret cave she goes off to and refers to her as her own personal batcave, a place that only she knows of and comes to.

She tells how there is no Robin for her that joins her here, till now.

Colin tells her he has come to have developed strong feelings for her and then divolges the whole stolen theorem incident and his objectives and his development in a new theorem about relationships inspired by partly her and all his former girlfriends which all possess the same name.