Rotten
Even Cate Blanchett can't save this misbegotten horse opera.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The Missing
How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost?
2003 · 2h 15m · R
Adventure, Thriller, Western
Directed by
Ron Howard
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The Missing
Overview
When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.
Director and cast
- Ron Howard Director
- Cate Blanchett as Maggie Gilkeson
- Tommy Lee Jones as Samuel Jones
- Evan Rachel Wood as Lilly Gilkeson
- Jenna Boyd as Dot Gilkeson
- Aaron Eckhart as Brake Baldwin
- Val Kilmer as Lt. Jim Ducharme
- Eric Schweig as Pesh-Chidin / El Brujo
- Steve Reevis as Two Stone
- Jay Tavare as Kayitah
- Simon Baker as Honesco, Kayitah's son
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
58%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Mr. Howard keeps the emotional temperature of the family reunion as chilly as possible, but it's clear that the father-daughter relationship is the core of the drama, and the rest is all time-consuming digressions.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
The rawest, scariest, most nerve-rattling saddlebags-and- sagebrush saga since Robert Mulligan's The Stalking Moon.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Fresh
... a strange and haunting hybrid that's part Western, part supernatural thriller.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
The Missing is holiday entertainment for anyone who likes either a dollop of feminist uplift or family values (or both!) with their bloodletting.
Charles Taylor, Salon.com
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