The Missing is a 2003 film directed by Ron Howard, based on the novel The Last Ride by Thomas Eidson. This Western thriller set in 1885 New Mexico is notable for the authentic use of the Apache language by various actors, some of whom spent long hours studying it. The film was produced by Revolution Studios and Imagine Entertainment and distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Set in the late 19th-century New Mexico, Samuel Jones (Jones) reappears hopin...
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The Missing is a 2003 film directed by Ron Howard, based on the novel The Last Ride by Thomas Eidson. This Western thriller set in 1885 New Mexico is notable for the authentic use of the Apache language by various actors, some of whom spent long hours studying it. The film was produced by Revolution Studios and Imagine Entertainment and distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Set in the late 19th-century New Mexico, Samuel Jones (Jones) reappears hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie Gilkeson (Blanchett). 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 an Apache medicine man (Eric Schweig) and a dozen of his followers who have left the reservation pass through the area, ritualistically killing settlers and taking their daughters to be sold into prostitution south of the American border. Among those captured is the eldest daughter of the family, Lily.
The U.S. Cavalry refuses to help...
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