The Missing (2003)

Directed by Ron Howard. With Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Jenna Boyd. In 1885 New Mexico, a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo.

The Missing is a 2003 American Revisionist Western thriller film directed by Ron Howard, based on Thomas Eidson's 1996 novel The Last Ride. The film is set in 1885 New Mexico Territory and is notable for the authentic use of the Apache language by various actors, some of whom spe

The Missing (2003) / Последний Рейд (Трейлер) Director: Ron Howard Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Aaron Eckhart, Val Kilmer and Evan Rachel Wood....

Critic Consensus: An expertly acted and directed Western. But like other Ron Howard features, the movie is hardly subtle.

New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford's "The Searchers" the most influential movie in American history. Movies like "Taxi Driver," "Hardcore" and "Paris, Texas" consider the theme of an abducted girl and the father or husband or cab driver who tries to rescue her from sexual despoliation at the hands of people he despises. The beat goes on with Ron Howard's "The Missing," a clunky Western that tries so hard to be Politically Correct that although young women are kidnapped by Indians to be sold into prostitution in Mexico, they are never molested by their captors.

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.

John Ford’s 1956 The Searchers imperfectly but provocatively illuminated a previously unexplored dark side in classic Western iconography, offering a challenging picture of a traditional John Wayne hero who was also bitterly anti-Indian and brutal enough to spend the film pursuin

Summary: This bone-chilling suspense thriller tells the story of Maggie Gilkeson (Blanchett), a young woman raising her two daughters in an isolated and lawless wilderness. When her oldest daughter (Wood) is kidnapped by a psychopathic killer with mystical powers (Schweig), Maggi

The Missing is a 2003 western film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett.

The Missing is a 2003 western thriller film, set in 1885 New Mexico, in which a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo.

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The Three Movie Buffs review The Missing (2003) Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood