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product_id: 267345992
title: "Missing [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]"
price: "R2097"
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reviews_count: 8
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# Missing [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

**Price:** R2097
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- **What is this?** Missing [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
- **How much does it cost?** R2097 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Description

This political thriller has its origins in an actual event - the disappearance of a young American writer and filmmaker, Charles Horman (John Shea), during a South American military coup. Jack Lemmon stars as Charles' father, Ed Horman, a prominent New York businessman, who comes to the aid of Charles' wife, Beth (Sissy Spacek), in her desperate search for her missing husband. They are led in circles, up blind alleys and are confronted with lies and false hopes from both U.S. and foreign officials. But they frantically trudge on together, overcoming their past differences until the painful, shattering conclusion.

## Product Details

- **Genre:** drama
- **Format:** DVD-Video
- **Language:** English, Spanish
- **Runtime:** 2 hours and 3 minutes
- **Colour:** Unknown

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Missing
*by D***D on 17 July 2010*

Costa Gavras provides a vivid, frightening and compelling fact-based reconstruction of three Americans caught up in a right wing military coup in a fictitious but very believable South American country. A young couple with distinctly liberal tendencies come to the attention of the new authorities and the young man's father (played by Jack Lemmon) who has distinctly conservative tendencies comes to the country when his son disappears. He is initially hostile to the freewheeling lifestyle of the couple and is annoyed that he has to intervene as he cannot understand why they were in the country in the first place but he gradually relates more closely to his daughter in law (played by Sissy Spacek) and can see her point of view. They soon realise that the coup is not a purely internal matter but it had the fingerprints of the CIA all over it. Fear descends across the country, nightime curfews are viciously enforced, hundreds of people are arrested for no good reason and the bodies of innocent people increasingly fill the streets and the hospitals as the authorities crush any dissent real or impagined. Against this background the couple desperately carry out their search until it reaches a tragic conclusion.Lemmon and Spacek are superb as the searchers and the film's portrayal of a country falling into the hands of an oppressive fascist regime is exciting, frightening and memorable. All concerned with the work are to be congratulated in creating a film of the highest quality.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ compelling suspense story, don't "miss" it...
*by S***R on 1 March 2007*

Undoubtedly Missing turns out to be a great piece of cinema, one of the brightest works of political film-maker Costa-Gavras. Based on true events, it successfully captures the chaotic atmosphere of Chile during the first weeks of Pinochet government. Crisp and compelling, the story is based on the vain struggle of an American businessman Ed Horman to recover his son, who vanished without a trace during the helter-skelter following the right-wing political coup.The general mood of the movie fits the story and its backdrop well with a fine score by Vangelis. Acting two controversial characters, Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek both deliver dazzling performances. Costa-Gavras uses an ingenious technique of flashbacks to give the people more deep background and allows them to draw conclusions from what they may have missed. This is the reason that the movie lacked a bit of clarity to the end and it causes little ambiguity.Contrary to the movie, that Universal DVD is such a "bare to bones" disc. There are no audio options (English mono only). The transfer is poor, pictures are grainy, and of course it lacks special features. What a shame!!! I think this is a kind of movie that really does deserve special edition treatment...

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Costa Gavras directs, Jack Lemmon is wonderful as the unknowing father
*by P***R on 21 August 2024*

just a superbly made film, The Jack Lemmon character's frustration with the Argentinian bureaucracy coupled with not knowing his son's fate and his increasing suspicions. The camerawork is superb

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*Last updated: 2026-03-21*