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  • 2003
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 17 m
  • 2003
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 17 m

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), Maggie is forced to re-unite with her long estranged father (Jones) to re...

Directed By: Ron Howard

Written By: Thomas Eidson, Ken Kaufman

  • 2003
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 17 m
  • 2003
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 17 m

The Missing

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 40 Critic Reviews
55
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 29 User Ratings
6.8
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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), Maggie is forced to re-unite with her long estranged father (Jones) to re...

Directed By: Ron Howard

Written By: Thomas Eidson, Ken Kaufman

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 40 Critic Reviews
55
38% Positive
15 Reviews
55% Mixed
22 Reviews
8% Negative
3 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 40 Critic Reviews
55
38% Positive
15 Reviews
55% Mixed
22 Reviews
8% Negative
3 Reviews

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90
Has Blanchett and Jones to its credit. To watch them is to take in two of the screen's greatest natural wonders.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
75
Ironically, what's lacking in Howard's stark, often brutal, late 19th-century chase drama is emotional punch.
By Megan Lehmann FULL REVIEW

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6.8
55% Positive
16 Ratings
38% Mixed
11 Ratings
7% Negative
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6.8
55% Positive
16 Ratings
38% Mixed
11 Ratings
7% Negative
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KenR
Mar 24, 2020
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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8
Scorpion
May 12, 2013
This is a good movie for those people who already went through the separation of the parents, because the characters and the outcome are moved by it, but for others it's just another Western plot to appeal to the side of emocinal they enjoy.
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63
The movie runs into its deepest trouble with its depiction of Lilly's captors. After years of Hollywood wooden Indians and a more recent run of tribal angels (as in "Dances With Wolves"), movies like "The Last of the Mohicans" have acknowledged the historical truth that Native Americans could be as bloody-minded as their white conquerors.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
58
Judging by the beautiful photography of Salvatore Totino, Howard knows what a Western should look like. But the thrills suggested by the trailers, in which the picture is presented almost like a frightening supernatural horror story, are nowhere to be seen.
By Kim Morgan FULL REVIEW
50
The Missing is so dour it makes you wonder why they didn't all just pack up and go back East.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
50
It's crisp, efficient, well-made and strangely, vaguely dull.
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW
25
Even Cate Blanchett can't save this misbegotten horse opera.
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW
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4
DarkJedi
Oct 4, 2012
It is an interesting film. The film is definitely well made. Some of the shots and scenery is very beautiful and the acting is up to par with the rest of the movie. I cannot say that I regretted having watched it. It is however, not really a movie in my taste. It
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darkbloodshed13
Dec 31, 2019
The Missing is a film directed by Ron Howard and is about Magdalena Gilkeson, played by Cate Blanchett, teaming up with her father, Played by Tommy Lee Jones, to go after a group of Indians who abducted Magdalena's daughter, played by Evan Rachel Wood. If I could use one word to describe this film it would be dull. That's mainly due to the terrible pacing of the film. There are just to many moments where nothing happens. The story doesn't help either, it's literally a bunch of similar plot points that we have seen in better films with barley anything new added to them. Add to a cast that just feels like they're there to get paid rather to give a good performance and you get a film that feels like a complete waste of time. In conclusion unless you have a real passion for westerns this film is not for you.
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Production Company Revolution Studios, Imagine Entertainment, Daniel Ostroff Productions
Release Date Nov 19, 2003
Duration 2 h 17 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost?
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Awards

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 3 Nominations
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Women's Image Network Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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