The Missing ★★★½ Quote:
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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.
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I found it very difficult to watch this and not compare it to the far superior narratively similar The Searchers, John Ford's celebrated Western, or The Homesman, another film which team Tommy Lee Jones with an Oscar-winning actress.
This is a film with fine central performances, a good story, good cinematography and music, but it's not one which, though I wouldn't classify as a great film, it's one I would call 'good' and happily watch again.