The Missing
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| The Missing | |
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| Directed by | Ron Howard |
| Produced by | Brian Grazer Ron Howard Daniel Ostroff |
| Written by | Thomas Eidson Ken Kaufman |
| Starring | Tommy Lee Jones Cate Blanchett Evan Rachel Wood Jenna Boyd |
| Music by | James Horner |
| Editing by | Daniel P. Hanley Mike Hill |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Entertainment Columbia Pictures Imagine Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | November 26, 2003 (USA) |
| Running time | 137 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Spanish Apache |
| Budget | US$65,000,000 |
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The Missing is a 2003 film directed by Ron Howard, based on the novel The Last Ride by Thomas Eidson. Western thriller set in 1880's New Mexico is notable for the authentic use of the Apache language by various actors, some of whom spent long hours studying it.
[edit] Plot
Set in 19th-century New Mexico, Samuel Jones (Jones) reappears hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie Gilkeson (Blanchett) as a cure for a snake bite. She is unable to forgive him for abandoning the family and leaving her mother to a hard life and early death. This situation changes when a power mad medicine man and a dozen of his followers are passing through the area, ritualistically killing farmers and taking their daughters to be sold into prostitution south of the American border. Among those captured is the eldest daughter of the family.
The U.S. Cavalry appears afterward, but refuses to help retrieve the captive women as its resources are tied up conducting forced relocation of captive Native Americans. This leaves the family, complete with the younger daughter, alone in tracking the attackers. We discover that Jones had joined a Chiricahua band where he gained the name Chaa-duu-ba-its-iidan (translates as “shit for luck”) during his wanderings. Among the captives is a young Chiricahua woman and it is finally the combined families who will eventually conduct a near suicidal attempt to free the women.
[edit] Main cast
- Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Jones/Chaa-duu-ba-its-iidan
- Cate Blanchett - Maggie Gilkeson
- Evan Rachel Wood - Lilly Gilkeson
- Jenna Boyd - Dot Gilkeson
- Aaron Eckhart - Brake Baldwin
- Val Kilmer - Lt. Jim Ducharme
- Sergio Calderón - Emiliano
- Eric Schweig - Pesh-Chidin/El Brujo
- Steve Reevis - Two Stone
- Jay Tavare - Kayitah
- Simon R. Baker - Honesco
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