The free encyclopedia. Missing Missing poster.jpg Theatrical release poster Directed by Nick Johnson Will Merrick Screenplay by Nick Johnson Will Merrick Story by Sev Ohanian Aneesh Chaganty Produced by Natalie Qasabian Sev Ohanian Aneesh Chaganty Timur Bekmambetov Adam Sidman Starring Storm Reid Joaquim de Almeida Ken Leung Amy Landecker It is a stand-alone prequel to Searching, which came out in 2018. Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, and Nia Long all appear in the movie. The story centers on June Allen, a teen who is looking for her mother after she goes missing while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend.
In 2019, a Searching anthology sequel was announced, and Merrick and Johnson, who edited the first film, signed on to direct it in January 2021. After delays caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, filming took place in Los Angeles from March to May of that year, after Reid and Long joined the cast in the spring of 2021. In addition, it serves as a spiritual follow-up to Run, which Chaganty, Merrick, and Johnson edited, confirmed the characters' outcomes in.
On January 19, 2023, Sony Pictures Releasing released Missing in the United States. The film had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The movie has made $9 million and received mostly positive reviews from critics.
The free encyclopedia. Missing Missing poster.jpg Theatrical release poster Directed by Nick Johnson Will Merrick Screenplay by Nick Johnson Will Merrick Story by Sev Ohanian Aneesh Chaganty Produced by Natalie Qasabian Sev Ohanian Aneesh Chaganty Timur Bekmambetov Adam Sidman Starring Storm Reid Joaquim de Almeida Ken Leung Amy Landecker It is a stand-alone prequel to Searching, which came out in 2018. Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, and Nia Long all appear in the movie. The story centers on June Allen, a teen who is looking for her mother after she goes missing while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend.
In 2019, a Searching anthology sequel was announced, and Merrick and Johnson, who edited the first film, signed on to direct it in January 2021. After delays caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, filming took place in Los Angeles from March to May of that year, after Reid and Long joined the cast in the spring of 2021. In addition, it serves as a spiritual follow-up to Run, which Chaganty, Merrick, and Johnson edited, confirmed the characters' outcomes in.
On January 19, 2023, Sony Pictures Releasing released Missing in the United States. The film had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The movie has made $9 million and received mostly positive reviews from critics.
Plot:
In a video from the archives, a young June Allen is with her late father James, who died of a brain tumor shortly after the video was made. Years later, June plans a house party before her mother Grace leaves for a weeklong trip to Colombia with her new boyfriend Kevin. She tells June, to her annoyance, that Grace's friend Heather, a divorce lawyer who is envious of Grace's relationship with Kevin, will be watching.
June is given the task of picking up her mother and Kevin at Los Angeles International Airport a week later, but they don't show up, so June calls the police. June decides to conduct her own investigation after becoming dissatisfied with the FBI's apparent lack of progress and employing a variety of digital resources like Facebook messages, Google Maps, and search histories from the internet. Additionally, she employs Colombian gig worker Javier, who fulfills June's requirements for a modest fee.
June finds out that Kevin is not who he claims to be. She discovers a number of aliases and, eventually, a criminal record for defrauding numerous women for their money by hacking into his Gmail account. June asks Javier to look for clues about her mother's whereabouts in Colombia while she investigates because she believes Kevin kidnapped her mother for money. She follows Kevin's past to Nevada, where she talks to a man named Jimmy who claims to be a pastor at a Christian rehabilitation center for ex-convicts. She follows Kevin's past there. He informs her that Kevin is truly in love with Grace and has completed his rehabilitation. When June eventually gets to her mother's online dating profile, she finds out that she was already aware of Kevin's criminal past. She also gives hints about a past secret she wants to tell Kevin offline.
June is informed by FBI agent Elijah Park that he received video footage of a group of criminals allegedly kidnapping Grace and Kevin in Colombia. June discovers that this was a fabricated event because Kevin had hired a Rachel Page-like actress to play her mother, who had been kidnapped on the way to the airport before. Rachel admits that she didn't know what Kevin was up to when she went to Colombia with him. When Grace's multiple aliases are revealed, it's speculated that Grace herself has something to do with Grace's own disappearance. June suspects Heather when she discovers an encrypted line of communication between her and Kevin, believing her mother to be innocent. June sneaks into Heather's office, where she discovers her dead body in a storage closet and finds it ransacked with deleted files.
Later, June sees live footage of a police raid in Colombia that focuses on Kevin. Kevin surrenders, but he is shot and killed. June is about to give up when she appears to be at a dead end, but she is able to access her mother's email, which is secured by a password that June could not guess before. She locates a threatening email addressed to Grace and discovers security cameras that Kevin purchased to be installed in an abandoned house. June recognizes the Nevada vacation home from the camera footage. Jimmy calls at that exact moment and informs her that he has some information about her mother. Soon after, he knocks on June's door and begs her to let him in.
When June opens the door, she finds that Jimmy is her deceased father James. He tells June that Grace was emotionally unstable and that he took her from him after he was arrested on false charges and has been hiding them for years under a different name. James was a domestic abuser whose drug habit put all of them in danger, despite the fact that his intentions appear to be good; In order to keep June from learning the truth, Grace informed June and Heather that he passed away from cancer. James then sought retribution by forcing Kevin to pretend to be a boyfriend in order to locate Grace and June.
Grace is also being held at the old house when James quickly kidnaps June. Grace and June reunite, but James soon threatens them, and Grace is shot. James tries to leave with June, but Grace, who is still alive, stabs him in the neck with a glass shard, killing him from bleeding. June uses the cameras to tell Siri to call the police after realizing that James never turned off her laptop when he kidnapped her.
The kidnapping occurs after a period of time. June is enrolled in college, and Grace has recovered from her gunshot wound. Grace and Javier became friends after June introduced them on the true crime show Unfiction, which adapted their story. June responds to her mother's text message that she loves her by saying that she also loves her.
