Missing is political filmmaker extraordinaire Costa-Gavras’s compelling, controversial dramatization of the search for American filmmaker and journalist Charles Horman, who mysteriously disappeared during the 1973 coup in Chile.
Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek give magnetic, emotionally commanding performances as Charles’s father and wife, who are led by U.S. embassy and consulate officials through a series of bureaucratic dead-ends before eventually uncovering the terrifying facts about Charles’s fate and disillusioning truths about their government.
Written and directed with clarity and conscience, the Academy Award–winning Missing is a testament to Costa-Gavras’s daring. -- The Criterion Collection
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Jack Lemmon, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi, David Clennon, Richard Venture, Jerry Hardin, Richard Bradford, Joe Regalbuto, Keith Szarabajka, Janice Rule
Cannes: Palme d'Or, Best Actor (Jack Lemmon)
About this movie
Title: Missing (1982)
Directed by: Constantin Costa-Gavras
Date of birth: 12 February 1933, Loutra-Iraias, Greece
Writing credits: Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart, John Nichols
Music: Vangelis
Year: 1982
Country: United States
Language: English | Spanish
Color: Color
Runtime: 122 min.