Missing
“Ed Horman thought that being an American would guarantee his safety. His family believed that being Americans would guarantee them the truth. They were all wrong.”
Costa-GavrasCast
Jack Lemmon 
Sissy Spacek Melanie Mayron
Credits
Written by: Costa-Gavras
Plot
After the 1973 coup in Chile, an American father and his daughter-in-law search for a young man who has disappeared.
Sinekatalog’s take
Costa-Gavras's drama of a father searching for his son in Pinochet's Chile is tense and angry. Jack Lemmon is superb, and the film earned an Oscar and drew political fire.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.7 / 10 (24,713 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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