
The Missing
Taste attributes: adventurethrillerwesternhistoricalintricatelinearbig & variedemotionally undemandingrescue/escape/jeopardy
"How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost?"
Boxlist takeA sweeping western, balanced on most other counts. Best if you like spectacle over intimacy.
Taste details
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: intricate · Structure: very linear · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score
Quality rating
6.3 /10
TMDB · 427 votes
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What lines up
- Pace: Balanced, just how this profile likes it
- Wholesomeness: Balanced, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Emotional punch: Undemanding, where this profile leans emotive / stirring
- Setting / scale: Big / varied, where this profile leans small / confined
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Synopsis
When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.
Synopsis: TMDB
Taste Attributes
Characteristics
Where this title sits on each taste spectrum
Directed by
- Ron Howard
Cast
- Cate Blanchett
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Evan Rachel Wood
- Jenna Boyd
- Aaron Eckhart
Details
- Genre
- Adventure
- Year
- 2003
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
- Taste scores
- How we score
Similar in feel
Matched on pace, tone, themes and style, not just genre.











