Production Year: 2003 - Westerns - Director: Ron Howard - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Janette Boyd, Aaron Eckhart, Val Kilmer more
Director Ron Howard, who impressed audiences with BACKDRAFT (1991) and A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001), has outdone himself with THE MISSING, a wrenching family drama that unfolds in the... more
The Missing
The woman was missing for five years. The Crime Scene Investigator finds her. And the ... more
serial killer wants them both dead... When Boston CSI Darby McCormick finds a raving and emaciated woman hiding at the scene of a violent kidnap she runs a DNA search to identify the Jane Doe. The result confirms she was abducted five years earlier and has somehow managed to escape from the dungeon in which she's been caged. With a teenage couple also missing and Jane Doe seriously ill the clock is ticking for Darby as she hunts for the dungeon before anyone else disappears or dies. And when the FBI takes over the investigation it becomes clear that a sadistic serial killer has been on the prowl for decades - and is poised to strike again at any moment - a killer with links to horrors that Darby has desperately tried to bury in her past ...
The Missing
From Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, the Oscar-winning Director and Producer team of 'A ... more
Beautiful Mind' comes THE MISSING. A chilling suspense thriller and a powerful drama of love, forgiveness and redemption starring Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones (Best Actor In A Supporting Role - 'The Fugitive', 1993) and Academy Award Nominee Cate Blanchett (Best Actress In A Leading Role - 'Elizabeth', 1998).What if someone you loved was suddenly taken......Maggie Gilkeson (Blanchett) is a young woman raising her two daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When eldest daughter Lily (Evan Rachel Wood - 'Thirteen') is snatched by a dark hooded phantom with mystical powers, Maggie is forced to reunite with her long-estranged father (Jones) who suddenly appears offering help. 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 the renegades and save the girl, before the kidnappers cross the Mexican border and disappear with her forever....
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Production Year: 1965 - Westerns - Director: Sergio Leone - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Klaus Kinski, Mario Brega, Gian Maria Volonte, Mara Krup, Luigi Pistilli
Production Year: 1959 - Westerns - Director: Howard Hawks - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Ward Bond, Claude Akins, Walter Brennan, John Russell
Plot: Samuel Jones walked out on his family many years before when his daughter was just a child. He decides to return home and make up with his now grown-up daughter Maggie. What he finds on his return is that Maggie's eldest daughter Lily has been kidnapped by a group of outlaws.
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): UCA; CINRAM LOGISTICS (SWINDON)
Languages
Main Language: English
Technical information
Special Features: Two Alternate Endings, Five Deleted Scenes, Five Ron Howard Featurettes, Outtake Reel, Three Short Films, Photo Gallery
Aspect Ratio: 2.40 Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
DVD Description
Director Ron Howard, who impressed audiences with BACKDRAFT (1991) and A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001), has outdone himself with THE MISSING, a wrenching family drama that unfolds in the midst of a classic 1880s Western. This extraordinarily beautiful film offers astounding panoramic photography and inspired performances that enrich a truly hair-raising journey. As ever, Cate Blanchett brings intense realism to the role of Maggie Gilkeson, a New Mexico cattle rancher who dabbles in the healing arts. Her long-estranged father Samuel Jones (Tommy Lee Jones) is mistaken for an Indian when he inexplicably shows up on her property hoping for reconciliation; he abandoned his family years earlier to adopt a Native American identity. An embittered Maggie sends him away, but capitulates when her eldest daughter Lilly (Evan Rachel Wood) is kidnapped by a band of psychotic Apache killers. When the local sheriff and the U.S. Army balk at chasing the perpetrators, a desperate Maggie turns to her father, praying he is sufficiently savvy in tribal ways to save her daughter. Blanchett and Jones clearly own this movie, and are both superb. Wunderkind child actor Jenna Boyd is spectacular as Maggie's youngest daughter, Dot. Also noteworthy are a brief but poignant cameo by Val Kilmer as an apathetic Army general and a skin-crawling appearance by Eric Schweig as Chidin, the outlaw leader.
Advantages: A nice story, interesting Disadvantages: Some odd animation parts
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