The Missing (2003)

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Release Date: Nov 26, 2003

Running Time: 91 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: Australia

Country Of Origin: Germany

Country Of Origin: United States

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

starring: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, John Moore, David Ngoombujarra, Rebecca Frith, David Franklin, Fiorenzio Fiorentini, Elise McCredie, Duane Moore, Martin Vaughan, Peter Docker

director: Manuela Alberti

A monsignor from Rome travels to Australia to help an old friend, Susan, solve the case of a serial killer. Susan believes that her daughter has been abducted by the killer and needs help in finding her before it is too late. The monsignor is now torn between his devotion to the Church and his desire for the woman he loves.

December 8, 2003

Even Cate Blanchett can't save this misbegotten horse opera. As frontier woman Maggie Gilkeson, Blanchett calls on her estranged father (Tommy Lee Jones) for help when her daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) is kidnapped by a psycho Indian (Eric Schweig). Daddy left Maggie in childhood to live among the Apache, so he knows the territory. Jones hams like a Hormel, speaking half his lines in Apache and reporting that his Indian name means "shit for luck." Except for Salvatore Totino's stark, scary…

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A Western drenched with mystery, action, suspense and the supernatural, The Missing is a blend of almost every conceivable Hollywood genre. The result is a gripping and haunting tale featuring one of the most chilling and bloodcurdling movie villains of all time.

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The world of Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett), a young medicine woman raising her two daughters in an isolated area of New Mexico in the 1880s, gets turned upside down when her child is kidnapped and her estranged father, Samuel…

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