The Missing (Widescreen Edition) | Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett

The Missing (Widescreen Edition) | Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett | Worth owning

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The Missing (Wides...

	The Missing (Widescreen Edition) Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett Sony Pictures, 2004 average customer review:based on 157 reviews view larger image
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The Oscar®-winning team of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer (2001 A Beautiful Mind Best Director Best Picture) present a riveting spine-tingling thriller destined to become a classic! Academy Award®-nominee Cate Blanchett (1998 Elizabeth Best Actress in a Leading Role) is Maggie a young plainswoman raising her daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily (Evan Rachel Wood Thirteen) is snatched by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers Maggie's long-estranged father Oscar®-winner Tommy Lee Jones (1993 The Fugitive Best Actor in a Supporting Role) appears suddenly offering help. Though stunned by his return Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk in the distance father and daughter set out to track down the fiend that took Lily. But lying in wait is horror so unspeakable it will change them forever!System Requirements:Running Time: 136 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: R UPC: 043396025431 Manufacturer No: 02543

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The Searchers

The Missing DVD

The Missing, starring Tommy Lee Jones in an adaptation of The Searchers (John Wayne Collection)with Cate Blanchard as a frontier widow whose daughter is captured by an Indian-led outlaw gang.

Highly recommended for fans of The Searchers (Two-Disc Anniversary Edition), western movies and Tommy Lee Jones.

Gunner March, 2008

Worth owning

The original DVD was very clear with excellent sound. The SUPERBIT version on an HD TV connected from an up upgrading HD DVD or Blu-Ray player via HDMI cord is brilliant! The sound in DTS is crisp and clear; when you hear the sound of a bullet ricochet off a rock, you clearly hear the direction it comes from and then the direction it changes to after striking the rock. People breathing and the sound of horses are all very full and have a dramatic impact on the film; as do the sounds of the shauman's rattle snakes.

Excellent cast and the children are very believable (not always the case in film}. One can feel the struggles of the times, the heat and the dryness. Cate Blanchet projects the fear a woman in her position at the time would feel very well. She is a versatile actress. The sadness in Tommy Lee Jones's character comes through so clearly and when he is given the opportunity to help, he grabs the life line. His experience shows; as a film actor, he knows what he's doing. The shauman is so evil his hatred is positively palpable.

As does Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Unforgiven [HD DVD], this film does not show the west in its more romantic aspects. This is gritty stuff and makes me for one, glad not to be living in that era.

I am sure a Blu-ray version is on the way, but meanwhile, this is worth owning.

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Great movie

Very good western and Jones & Blanchett were prefect for it. Sure was a bad landscape - I'll bet they were tired of that area. I'll be sure and never travel there.

more the expected

if you enjoy native american old west movies this is more then you could ecpect from the genre.the acting was good.especially Dot. i felt her passion.... the storyline has been told ..i felt it was better then the cover.....

An Edge of Your Seat film

The Missing is a high drama about interpersonal conflicts which just happens to occur in the Old West. It is also a standard action Western, but the characters are fully developed and carry the story.

The heat is always up and the movie is intense. This film has a great cast and an excellent script. Although brutal for a Ron Howard film, he does an great job of directing. Like any really good Western, the bad guy is bad to the bone. If you like Westerns or dramas, you should add The Missing to your library.

Disappointingly, there are no special features.

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