Metacritic Film

Disappearances

Starring Kris Kristofferson, Charlie McDermott, Geneviève Bujold, Gary Farmer, William Sanderson, Lothaire Bluteau, Heather Rae, and Luis Guzmán

MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Truly Indie
Action  |  Adventure  |  Drama
118 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters April 27, 2007

Based on the award-winning novel by Howard Frank Mosher. Legendary actor/songwriter Kris Kristofferson stars as schemer and dreamer Quebec Bill Bonhomme -- in a spellbinding tale of high-stakes whiskey-smuggling, a family's mysterious past, and a young boy's rite of passage. (Kingdom County Productions)

WRITTEN BY
Jay Craven (adaptation)

DIRECTED BY
Jay Craven

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

57 / 100

Critic Reviews

88 Chicago Tribune
The movie looks like far more than a million dollars and it offers the kind of smart, picaresque good time you get from books like "The Reivers" and "Huckleberry Finn" and movies like "Bronco Billy" and "Bonnie and Clyde."
75 San Francisco Chronicle
A heartfelt effort, if at times a bit heavy-handed.
75 New York Post
Solidly old-fashioned entertainment.
70 Variety
A frequently mesmerizing if exceedingly strange coming-of-age odyssey.
63 TV Guide
The mix of rollicking, family-friendly action and backwoods mysticism is odd, as is the story's progress from larky escapades to increasingly grim consequences, and Craven never quite manages to make it all seem a smoothly integrated piece.
50 Chicago Reader
Jay Craven's stilted adaptation of a novel by Howard Frank Mosher lacks the urgency, the poetry, or the feeling for period that might have brought the material to life, while the cast seems to be largely squandered.
50 The New York Times
The movie, though lovingly handmade by Mr. Craven, has a frustratingly disjunctive rhythm.
38 New York Daily News
The film is lovely to look at, but makes not a lick of sense.
25 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It is a pretentious and incoherent blend of ghost story and frontier adventure that becomes more preposterous and idiotic with each passing scene.

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