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Release Date
• USA: Nov 28, 2003
• UK: 27 Feb 2004
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 24, 2004
• R2: 24 Feb 2004
Budget $65,000,000
Official Website:
The Missing Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for violence.
Running Time
2 hours, 10 minutes
Country USA
Studio Brian Grazer, Daniel Ostroff Prods., Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Studios
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Missing
• The Last Ride
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Genre: Thriller, Adventure, Drama, Western, Suspense, Kidnapping, Hostage, Capers, Disturbing
Tagline: How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost?
Plot: The story of Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett), a young woman raising her two daughters in an isolated and lawless wilderness. When her oldest daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) is kidnapped by a psychopathic killer with mystical powers (Eric Schweig), Maggie is forced to re-unite with her long estranged father (Jones) to rescue her. The killer and his brutal cult of desperados have kidnapped several other teenage girls, leaving a trail of death and horror across the desolate landscape of the American Southwest. Maggie and her father are in a race against time to catch up with the renegades and save her daughter, before they cross the Mexican border and disappear
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Ron Howard's The Missing is an intense and character-driven Western that evenly blends mystery, action, suspense and the supernatural to buck the clichés normally associated with that genre.  --Guylaine Cadorette (Hollywood.com)
Ron Howard's latest Oscar bid is a gruesome and thoroughly unpleasant western that can't decide whether it's racist or overly p.c. Guess what? It's both.--Charles Taylor (Salon)
At 135 minutes, "The Missing" is way too long. This is basically a B Western jumped up out of its category. As a lean little oater, this story could have held down half of a double bill back when Westerns were popular, but these days audiences need a reason to see a Western.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Though far from his best work, Ron Howard’s “The Missing” is a daring step forward for a filmmaker so used to big audience-pleasing movies and warm performances. This tale of witchcraft and kidnapping isn’t an easy sit, but it rewards with narrative integrity and glorious New Mexican photography. B--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
Rich, tense and exciting, The Missing works as both a gripping thriller and lovingly-made western.  --Nev Pierce (BBC Films)
Ron Howard has constructed a film that – while dark and absent of sentimentality – works both as a gripping Western and a perceptive observation of troubled relationships. 78/100--Brian Webster (Apollo Guide)
Well-acted and impressively directed, The Missing is an intense, dark, violent Western with a streak of cruelty that belies its ‘15’ certificate. --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
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| Directed by |
Ron Howard
A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, The Da Vinci Code |
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| Written by |
| Ken Kaufman
Space Cowboys, Curious George, Borderline Normal |
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| Cast |
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 | Cate Blanchett
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
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 | Max Perlich
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Blow, Cliffhanger |
 | Jenna Boyd
The Hunted, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Mary Christmas | |
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| Howard has long wanted to do a western and, with "The Missing," the often sentimental director deviates from his warm and fuzzy style to construct a good, though not great, contribution to the genre. --Megan Lehmann (New York Post)
This isn't in much danger of becoming a classic addition to the genre, but it's good to see competent westerns still getting made and if guns, horses and moseying-on-down are your thing, this is well worth a look. 7/10--Gary Panton (Movie Gazette)
Powerful and provocative, "The Missing" is another masterful production from one of the industry's best directors and two of its best actors.--Paul Clinton (CNN Showbiz)
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