Summaries

In 1885 New Mexico, a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo.

In 19th-century New Mexico, a father (Tommy Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). Maggie's daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and estranged daughter to work together to get her back.—Anonymous

When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.—yusufpiskin

Details

Keywords
  • revisionist western
  • new mexico territory
  • apache territory
  • sonora mexico
  • sierra madre mountains
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • Western
Release date Nov 25, 2003
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United States
Language English Spanish Apache languages
Filming locations Valles Caldera, New Mexico, USA
Production companies Imagine Entertainment Revolution Studios Daniel Ostroff Productions

Box office

Budget $60000000
Gross US & Canada $27011180
Opening weekend US & Canada $10833633
Gross worldwide $38364277

Tech specs

Runtime 2h 17m
Color Color
Sound mix DTS Dolby Digital SDDS
Aspect ratio 2.39 : 1

Synopsis

Set in 1885 in New Mexico, an estranged father shows up at his daughter's ranch and it's made clear he isn't welcome back into her life. He abandoned his family years ago to "go injun." His older granddaughter is kidnapped by a band of assorted thugs of different ethnicities who are taking her to Mexico to sell her into prositution. So dad, daughter and younger granddaughter take off to track down the thugs and get the daughter back.

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`The Missing' is set in New Mexico in 1885. Tommy Lee Jones stars as the estranged father of prairie doctor Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett), a young woman with two daughters trying to make a living in this isolated wilderness. Tommy Lee Jones had abandoned his family some 20-years earlier to live with the Indians. After a rattlesnake bite, the medicine man tells him that he must reunite with his family to save his life. Maggie hates her father and throws him out of the house. After he leaves, her oldest daughter Lilly (Evan Rachel Wood) is kidnapped by a band of renegade Indians, who have already kidnapped several other girls to sell in Mexico. Maggie goes to town and tells the sheriff, but he cannot help, so she is forced to enlist the help of her father to track down the kidnappers. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)

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