June then gets a phone call from Jimmy, the guy from Kevin's “church.” Jimmy sounds frantic and ends up appearing in front of the Ring doorbell camera to reveal that he is actually James, JUNE'S FATHER, very much alive.
However, when he unwittingly reveals he was in the same prison around the same time Kevin was incarcerated, June realizes James and Kevin planned the entire ruse. It is revealed that James was a drug addict whose abuse endangered his family; Grace and Heather had told June he died of cancer in order to protect her.
James was a dangerous man, and Grace knew that he would hurt her and June if he could easily gain access to them. Furthermore, Grace wanted to protect June from the truth. June remembered him as a good dad, a kind man who played hide-and-seek with her.
Missing has a very happy ending in which Sarah and June make it back alive after going through hell in the form of James coming back from the past to harm them somehow. June's attitude is much more mature, and her connection with her mother seems to be more solid than ever.
The film and its plot are completely fictional works that were conceptualized and written by Sev Ohanian and Aneesh Chaganty. Ohanian and Chaganty actually wrote the story for Missing while directors Nick Johnson and Will Merrick wrote the screenplay.
Missing is no horror film, but it is a very well crafted thriller. The performances are spectacular. The grounded reality of the film makes it feel like you are watching these terrifying events play out in real time. There's a large debate between thriller and horror films, but it doesn't matter.
Missing is a thriller with a complex plot, filled with twists and turns, that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats until the very end. The movie reveals that June's supposedly dead father, James, is behind the kidnapping of her mother, Grace, in his attempt to reunite with his daughter.
Now, Grace and June are free and reunited. The film ends with June in college, and we learn that a true crime show has been written based on what happened to her and Grace.
The MPAA rating has been assigned for “some strong violence, language, teen drinking, and thematic material.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a few bloody wounds and deaths by gunshot and a stabbing with a shard of glass, a few fights when a gun is discharged, a kidnapping, underage drinking, many arguments ...
Missing, the spiritual sequel to Searching, involves an entirely new story and — save for a sly reference to John Cho's character in the prologue — an entirely new cast, but it retains the cinematic grammar and philosophy of the original film.
Allen, who had a history of heart disease, died from a heart attack in Hollywood on August 27, 1964, at age 62 (later found to be 69 according to census records). Her remains were interred in a crypt at the Freedom Mausoleum in the Sanctuary of Heritage at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.
While it's a thriller rather than a horror film, Searching, too, moves deliberately, making limited and effective use of hidden cameras, streaming, and other avenues that allow a found-footage style (more similar to Paranormal Activity or The Blair Witch Project) to take over from a pure screenlife style.
A gripping, well-told, incredibly watchable thriller for a new generation of TikTok sleuths — and a compelling argument to up your average screen-time. April 17, 2023 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Woven into its genre movie fabric are themes of emptiness, regret, coping with loss, and mother/daughter relationships among other things. The movie doesn't dig too deep into them, but the filmmakers give us enough to earn our emotional investment.
Not for the fainthearted, “The Missing” earns its R rating for excessive, gory violence. A group of Indians and white men has banded together to slaughter men and sell their women across the Mexican border. Dot, accompanying her mother and grandfather, witnesses many of the atrocities and killings.
Missing, a mystery movie starring Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, and Ken Leung is available to stream now. Watch it on Netflix, ROW8, Vudu or Apple TV on your Roku device.
In short: no, Missing is entirely rooted in fiction. The film is a sequel to the 2018 film Searching, which was also a fictional story. Although a sequel, it is a standalone film with different characters and conflict.
