Missing
15,648
Drama
This political thriller winner (ex aequo) of the Golden Palm in Cannes Film Festival has its origins in an actual event – the disappearance of a young American writer and filmmaker, Charles Horman (Shea), during a South American military coup. Jack Lemmon stars as Charles’ father, Ed Horman, a prominent New York businessman, who comes to the aid of Charles’ wife, Beth (Spacek), in her desperate search for her missing husband. They are ... [+]
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United States | The New York Times | "[It] is particularly successful in evoking the looks, sounds and feelings of a society in upheaval." | POS |
United States | Chicago Sun-Times | "This movie might have really been powerful, if it could have gotten out of its own way (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" | POS |
United Kingdom | Time Out | "Costa-Gavras underpins his campaigning content with all the electric atmosphere of a paranoid conspiracy thriller" | POS |
United States | Time | "A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies." | NEG |
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