How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost?
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.
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jun 20178/10
There's always the next something, Maggie. And that will take a man away. The Missing is directed by Ron Howard and adapted by Ken Kaufman from the novel The Last Ride written by Thomas Eidson. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchet, Eric Schweig, Evan Rachel Wood, Jenna Boyd, Ray McKinnon, Val Kilmer & Aaron Eckhart. James Horner scores the music and Salvatore Totino is the cinematographer. New Mexico 1885 and frontier doctor Maggie Gilkeson (Blanchet) has to seek help from her estranged father Samuel Jones/Chaa-duu-ba-its-iidan (Lee Jones), when her eldest daughter is kidnapped by Pesh-Chidin/El Brujo (Schweig) an Apache Warlock who sells girls into prostitution. An obvious variation on John Ford's The Searchers, The Missing slipped under the radar some what of Western fans who were greatly served by Kevin Costner's Open Range released the same year. It was a box office flop; which in a genre that has rarely hit great heights in modern times is hardly surprising, but to dismiss Howard's film as a fop is just wrong. True enough it's hardly original on the page, but it manages to not sacrifice character depth as it crams in the Western staples. While there is plenty enough here fo
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Cast
- Cate BlanchettMaggie Gilkeson
- Tommy Lee JonesSamuel Jones
- Evan Rachel WoodLilly Gilkeson
- Jenna BoydDot Gilkeson
- Aaron EckhartBrake Baldwin
- Val KilmerLt. Jim Ducharme
- Eric SchweigPesh-Chidin / El Brujo
- Steve ReevisTwo Stone
- Jay TavareKayitah
- Simon BakerHonesco, Kayitah's son
Crew
- Ron HowardDirector
- Ken KaufmanScreenplay
- Thomas EidsonNovel
- Salvatore TotinoDirector of Photography
- James HornerOriginal Music Composer
- Daniel P. HanleyEditor
- Mike HillEditor
- Brian GrazerProducer
- Ron HowardProducer
- Daniel OstroffProducer
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