2003 · western · thriller · drama
The Missing
Directed by Ron Howard2h 15m2003
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.
Our read: The Missing (2003) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded western · thriller · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme western / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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