No one disappears without a trace.
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.
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Contemporary, grave, relentless and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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- honeybee <3on TMDB · Aug 20268/10
A pretty solid thriller. It's the first movie I've seen that shows everything through a phone or computer, which annoyed me a little (cause why was June just sitting in her room (bars) with her photo booth open for no reason??), but ignoring that aspect of it, it's a cool way to tell a story. I kept going back and forth on who I trusted, the plot twists were definitely twisting. Javier has my whole heart, 5 stars. (ALSO THE FACT THAT IN ONE OF THE TEXT MESSAGES THAT WAS SHOWN ON JUNE'S PHONE FOR LIKE ONE SECOND AT THE END IT SAID THAT JAVI WASN'T EVEN MENTIONED IN THEIR EPISODE OF UNFICTION???? JUSTICE FOR JAVIER!!!!!) (also justice for Grace, it made me so sad that the first guy she loved was actually horrible and the second guy was only with her cause he was working for the first guy, that would hurt) > (4/5, originally reviewed 11/17/24)
Read the whole review on TMDB - Manuel São Bentoon TMDB · Nov 20238/10
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/missing-mini-review "Missing may not surpass the original, but it stands as a compelling standalone sequel. The screenlife storytelling technique remains fascinating, as debutants Will Merrick and Nick Johnson bring an insane level of mind-blowing detail to every single digital frame. The tense, twisty narrative holds a generic yet efficiently developed mother-daughter emotional core. accompanied by a wonderful score, smooth pacing, excellent performances, and high entertainment value. Believability is stretched a tad too much in a crazier screenplay, and the screenlife format poses a challenge in conveying the more dramatic moments. Minor issues that won't change an inevitably fantastic reception from a broad audience." Rating: A-
Read the whole review on TMDB - Silversteinon TMDB · May 20238/10
Aneesh Chaganty made an immediate impact with his 2018 feature debut Searching. While the Google alumnus was not the first to use the screen life format (that is, telling a story only through what we can see on computer screens and digital devices), Chaganty certainly popularized it with a compelling story of a father looking for his missing daughter. In 2023’s Missing, Chaganty produces and gets a ‘story by’ credit but hands the screenwriting and directing to Will Merrick and Nick Johnson. This spiritual follow-up to Searching again revolves around someone who vanishes. The roles get reversed in Missing, replacing a parent who has to fumble his way around social media as the primary searcher with the very tech-savvy June Allen (Storm Reid), a teen who is looking for her missing mother, Grace (Nia Long). While Aneesh Chaganty isn’t at the helm this time around, his influence is still very apparent in Missing. We don’t see June all that often, but as in Searching, we get a sense of what the character is feeling when we watch her type a message in a chat box but doesn’t send it, letting the cursor blink for a few moments before erasing the text and typing a revised message that’s mor
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Cast
- Storm ReidJune
- Joaquim de AlmeidaJavi
- Ken LeungKevin
- Amy LandeckerHeather
- Daniel HenneyAgent Park
- Nia LongGrace
- Megan SuriVeena
- Tim GriffinJames
- Rick ChambersMorning Host
- Tracy VilarDetective Gomez
Crew
- Will MerrickDirector
- Nicholas D. JohnsonDirector
- Nicholas D. JohnsonScreenplay
- Will MerrickScreenplay
- Steven HolleranDirector of Photography
- Julian ScherleOriginal Music Composer
- Arielle ZakowskiEditor
- Austin KeelingEditor
- Sev OhanianProducer
- Natalie QasabianProducer
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