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THE MISSING (2003) |
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MORGAN'S RATING |
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| A wrentching family drama that unfolds in the midst of a classic 1880s Western. Maggie Gilkeson is a New Mexico cattle rancher who dabbles in the healing arts. Her long-estranged father Samuel Jones is mistaken for an Indian when he inexplicably shows up on her property hoping for reconciliation; he abandoned his family years earlier to adopt a Native American identity. An embittered Maggie sends him away, but capitulates when her eldest daughter Lilly is kidnapped by a band of psychotic Apache killers. When the local sheriff and the U.S. Army balk at chasing the perpetrators, a desperate Maggie turns to her father, praying he is sufficiently saavy in tribal ways to save her daughter. |
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| Tommy Lee Jones (Samuel Jones), Cate Blanchett (Maggie Gilkeson), Evan Rachel Wood (Lily Gilkeson), Aaron Eckhart (Brake Baldwin), Val Kilmer (Lieutenant), Sergio Calderon (Emiliano), Eric Schweig (Chidin), Steve Reevis (Two Stone), Jay Tavare (Kayitah), Simon Baker (Honesco), Ray McKinnon (Russell J. Wintick), Max Perlich (Isaac Edgerly), Ramon Frank (Grummond), Deryle J. Lujan (Naazhaao), Matthew E. Montoya (Tsi Beoyuao), Joe Saenz (Mba'tsu-Naabitin), Gandi Shaw (Izhashe), Rod Rondeaux (Hudlao), Juddson Keith Linn (Chauaiao), Alvin William 'Dutch' Lunak (Aii Sionzilo), Elizabeth Moss (Anne), Josephine Schwan, Alexandra Elich (Baby Sally), Yolanda Nez (Aii Dahit'eeo), Heather Gulas, Scarlett McAlister, Aura Jensen-Curtis, Shelby Kocurek, Molly McAlister (Captive Girls), Clint Howard (Sheriff Purdy), Rance Howard (Telegraph Operator). |
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HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO, HOW MUCH WOULD YOU SACRIFICE TO GET BACK WHAT YOU LOST? |
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION |
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DIRECTOR: Ron Howard.
WRITERS: Ken Kaufman, and based on the novel The Last Ride, by Thomas Eidson.
PRODUCERS: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Daniel Ostroff.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Kathleen McGill, Aldric La'Auli Porter and Louisa Velis.
CO-PRODUCER: Sue Berger.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Steve Crystal and Todd Hallowell.
ORIGINAL MUSIC: James Horner.
DISTRIBUTOR: Columbia Pictures. |
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FACTS |
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RELEASE DATE: November 26th, 2003 (USA)
DVD RELEASE DATE: February 24th, 2004 (USA)
BOX OFFICE OPENING: $10.8 million (USA)
BOX OFFICE RESULT: $26.9 million (USA)
BUDGET: $65 million (USA)
SHOOTING DATES: March 2003 -- June 2003 |
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QUOTES |
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Lieutenant: Any man caught looting will have the value of the loot deducted from his pay. |
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Chidin: Take your bad luck to your grave. |
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CRITICAL COMMENTS |
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| "A superbly crafted curiosity piece." -- Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News |
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"Suffers from the same problem that has plauged every movie Ron Howard has ever directed; it's crisp, efficient, well-made and strangely, vaguely dull." -- Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald |
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| "The best and toughest western since Unforgiven." -- Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
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"In The Missing, Ron Howard somehow makes a great movie and an awful movie, all at the same time." -- Desson Thomson, Washington Post |
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| "Even Cate Blanchett can't save this misbegotten horse opera." -- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone |
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