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List Price: $9.99 Our Price: $8.99 You Save: $1 Features • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1982 DVD Release : 23 November, 2004 |
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Missing description The peril facing a lone American amid Third World political turmoil is elegantly communicated in this important film from Costa-Gavras (Z), adapted by the director and Donald Stewart from Thomas Hauser's nonfiction book. The key to its power onscreen stems from the decision not to center the action merely on the disappearance of Charles Horman (John Shea), but also on the search for him by his father Ed (Jack Lemmon)--and on Ed's discovery of a son he never knew. The Oscar-winning script flows freely between that search and Charles's earlier experiences in the unnamed country (in the true account, Chile). Providing a link between those two stories is Charles's wife Beth (Sissy Spacek), who follows her father-in-law around a country in chaos, teeming with reckless authority and disinterested American diplomats (epitomized by ace character actor David Clennon). The film, which was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, is certainly manipulative, but it works because of its finely detailed human elements. Usually emotionally extroverted, Lemmon gives one of his finest performances playing against that type--here, he's a controlled, intellectual man who learns more about his son, and his country, than he ever dreamed he would. --Doug Thomas |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | corruption and its many destructive depths........ |
| MISSING, based on the book by Thomas Hauser, examined the fated journey that Ed Horman and his daughter took, as well as the strides they made in attempting to locate his son, Charles, a missing journalist who disappeared in Chile, during the height of Allende's dictatorship in the early 1970s. Though, this film adaptation does not mention Chile directly, you don't have to read between the lines too closely to know what country it is alluding to. Director Costa-Gavras powerfully directed this piece, and his cast works brilliantly together. Jack Lemmon is stoic and very believable as Ed, Sissy Spacek is chilling as Charles Horman's wife, and John Shea does a great job in portraying the missing journalist.
I couldn't help feeling a sense of profound rage as I watched the horrible political corruption that existed in 1970s Chile, and how seemingly apathetic the United States government appeared, especially when they were called upon to search for and follow up on the case of Charles Horman. It was almost as though one human life was of little or no interest to those in political office, perhaps due to the fact that it wasn't significant or "high profile" enough to earn their compassion. This is definitely a film worthy of its critical acclaim and will really make you think. |
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