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Genre | Drama |
Format | AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
Contributor | Jenna Boyd, Evan Wood, Cate Blanchett, Ron Howard, Revolution Studios Distribution Company, LLC, Aaron Eckhart, Brian Grazer, Daniel Ostroff, Tommy Jones See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 2 hours and 17 minutes |
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The Oscar(r)-winning team of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer (2001, A Beautiful Mind, Best Director, BestPicture) present a riveting, spine-tingling thriller destined to become a classic! Academy Award(r)-nominee Cate Blanchett (1998, Elizabeth, Best Actress in a Leading Role) is Maggie, a young plainswoman raising her daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily (Evan RachelWood, Thirteen) is snatched by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father Oscar(r)-winner Tommy Lee Jones (1993, The Fugitive, Best Actor in a Supporting Role) appears suddenly, offering help. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurtand pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk in the distance, father and daughter set out to track down the fiend that took Lily. But lying in wait is horror so unspeakable it will change them forever!
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 2.40:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Package Dimensions : 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 4 Ounces
- Director : Ron Howard
- Media Format : AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Run time : 2 hours and 17 minutes
- Release date : October 26, 2004
- Actors : Tommy Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Wood, Jenna Boyd, Aaron Eckhart
- Subtitles: : Mandarin Chinese, Korean, English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Thai
- Producers : Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Daniel Ostroff
- Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B0002VYOXG
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #225,133 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #3,649 in Westerns (Movies & TV)
- #12,714 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #36,545 in Drama DVDs
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Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2021
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This movie had a lot going for it, not the least of which was the starring role of beautiful New Mexico. Camera-work was smooth, allowing the scenery to pop and bedazzle..
The script, however, lacked emotional pizzazz. The plot should have revolved around a husband's betrayal of his frontier wife rather than an errant father's betrayal of his daughter (and her dead mother).
Val Kilmer should have been the romantic lead. Yeah, Val would have had to lose a few pounds, but you could have made him do it. Val has charisma that enables us to empathize with him despite his sins.
The story could have gone something like this: Rancher Val leaves Cate Blanchett and their two kids and the boredom of desert farming life to follow the Indian ways. One day, after watching a hawk fly free, he just ups and leaves. Cate, embittered, struggles on and consoles herself and her children as best she can. She has a decent relationship with the foreman. Scenes of Val's life with Apaches -- the good, the bad, and the ugly -- alternate with scenes of Cate's hardscrabble existence and their children's grief.
After Val's Apache wife dies in a scene which exposes an unsuspected abyss in the attitudes between the Apaches' worldview and Val's, Val decides to return home.... just in time to rescue Cate from an Indian attack. As in the movie, she resists his help at first but gradually she is impressed by the "different" more responsible person he has become during his absence. They make emends, as he helps Cate recover their stolen daughter. Their youngest child is not a daughter but a son, who is protective of Cate and angry at Val. In the end Val is able to elicit forgiveness from his son.
The overarching theme of the movie would be " the family unit as a protective, secure unit" in a hostile world....whether that world is Apache or European.
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5 stars for underrated Cate Blanchett's performance as Maggie (Magdalena) Gilkeson.
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5 stars for 10 year old Jenna Boyd's amazing performance as Maggie's youngest daughter Dot Gilkeson.
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4 stars for Tommy Lee Jones performance as Samuel Jones, estranged father of Maggie.
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4 stars for Eric Schweig performance as the evil Chidin, who kidnapped Dot's older sister ( Maggie's oldest daughter ).
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5 stars for the amazing scenery provided by Santa Fe and for director Ron Howard.
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The Missing showcased strong and determined women in New Mexico in the late 1800s.
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Cate Blanchett, Jenna Boyd, Evan Rachel Wood, and other female actors did their own horse back riding and stunts.
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Highly recommend this movie to anyone who loves both Westerns and Thrillers.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 26, 2021
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5 stars for underrated Cate Blanchett's performance as Maggie (Magdalena) Gilkeson.
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5 stars for 10 year old Jenna Boyd's amazing performance as Maggie's youngest daughter Dot Gilkeson.
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4 stars for Tommy Lee Jones performance as Samuel Jones, estranged father of Maggie.
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4 stars for Eric Schweig performance as the evil Chidin, who kidnapped Dot's older sister ( Maggie's oldest daughter ).
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5 stars for the amazing scenery provided by Santa Fe and for director Ron Howard.
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The Missing showcased strong and determined women in New Mexico in the late 1800s.
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Cate Blanchett, Jenna Boyd, Evan Rachel Wood, and other female actors did their own horse back riding and stunts.
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Highly recommend this movie to anyone who loves both Westerns and Thrillers.
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If you then throw in nasty renegades, rattle snakes a plenty, Indian curses, potions and mantras, the cavalry, coyotes & hawks and a rattling good finale then this is a win, win, win film.

There are echoes of `The Searchers' in the plot.. well, I say echoes, but this is virtually what they like to call these days `a reimagining' of the same story. However the depth of meaning, characters and symbolism from that movie are nowhere near replicated here.
What we do have is a bunch of fine performances by terrific actors, and a degree of authenticity that reminds you what a great director Howard can be.
Blanchett is the mother, whose daughter is abducted to be sold into white slavery, her lover brutally tortured and killed. The army (with a surprise cameo from Val Kilmer) can not / will not help, so she enlists the help of her estranged father - a man who abandoned her when young, and went native with the Indians.
The chase to find them uncovers that the ringleader is actually a `brujo', an Indian witch, and part of the battle is against the brujo's witchcraft.
Therein lies part of the problem of the movie - as good and as well crafted as it is, it has parts traditional Western, part character study, part horror and part plain old thriller - and they are individually interesting, but put all together drag on a little bit too long to be a successful.
Don't be put off, it IS a good movie - just plan a few toilet breaks in the middle!

