Missing (1982)
When American journalist Charles Horman arrives in Chile to meet his wife Beth and bring her back to New York, however, an overthrow takes places and Charles is arrested by the military force. The story follows the quest of his father and his wife to find him.
24 August 1949, New York City, New York, USA
2 December 1952, Oak Park, Illinois, USA
24 June 1904, Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA
4 January 1932, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico
26 December 1947, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
9 October 1947, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 November 1929, Dallas, Texas, USA
28 February 1943, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
28 January 1954, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
September 29, 1927 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
14 April 1949, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
12 November 1923, New Jersey, USA
31 October 1935, New York City, New York, USA
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25 December 1949, Quitman, Texas, USA
17 January 1914, England, UK
18 February 1956, Mexico City, Mexico
December 23, 2008
engrossing, fascinating, and endlessly tragic.October 24, 2008
Lemmon and Spacek are the film's highlight... It's a winning formula, and it's too bad that there isn't more of it.June 12, 2007
In Costa-Gavras's fact-inspired political melodrama, Jack Lemmon gives one of his strongest performances as a naive, conservative American who gets rude political awakening when his leftist son is executed with the tacit knowledge of the US governmentJanuary 31, 2011
A powerful, influential and tense political thriller based on a true story.October 23, 2004
This movie might have really been powerful, if it could have gotten out of its own way.October 25, 2012
Graphic portrayal of dictatorship's abuses is unforgettable.May 20, 2003
Among other things Missing does is to convince you that, next time, you're not going to waste your vote. The passive citizen is the citizen-victim.March 26, 2009
Lemmon is superior as a man facing up to issues he never wanted to confront personally.March 29, 2009
Though Costa-Gavras clearly has a political axe to grind, he manages to do so without haranguing the viewer, keeping the film's focus on his characters and masterfully building tension as the story moves toward its stinging resolution.June 24, 2006
Spacek and Lemmon are fine as the missing man's wife and father, but what makes the film so overwhelming in places is its unending night-time imagery of a society coming apart at the seams.November 15, 2016
Still relevant 34 years after its release and 43 years after the events it depicts. [Full review in Portuguese.]March 29, 2009
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. Spacek and Lemmon, an appealing sweet-and-sour combo, sink in the swamp of good intentions.