The Missing Person

2009

Drama / Mystery / Thriller

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 67% · 27 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 44% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 1860 1.9K

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Director

Noah Buschel Photo
Noah Buschel

Top cast

Linda Emond Photo
Linda Emond as Mrs. Fullmer
Michael Shannon Photo
Michael Shannon as John Rosow
Abbie Cobb Photo
Abbie Cobb as Leopard Girl
Paul Adelstein Photo
Paul Adelstein as Drexler Hewitt
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876.55 MB
1280*688
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 2
1.59 GB
1920*1032
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by moonspinner55 6 / 10

Deliberately weary modern noir...at times quite arresting, and with a terrific lead performance

Michael Shannon is one of the finest new character actors working in films today; his performance here as a private investigator from New York, hired to trail a middle-aged man from Chicago to Los Angeles by train, is the centerpiece of "The Missing Person"...and is very nearly the entire show. Writer-director Noah Buschel was probably hoping to modernize the old private eye clichés (including booze, broads, and blaring saxophones on the soundtrack), but his movie doesn't really start cooking for at least a quarter of an hour into the proceedings. Buschel's pacing is deliberately slow, and Shannon's John Rosow is intentionally beleaguered and burnt-out, yet there's no reason to be so poky with this narrative (even Bogie livened up earlier on one of his cases). The film is well-produced and shot, though it runs the risk of losing viewers before it starts to take shape. Once it does, it becomes a rather fascinating throwback, its scenario seesawing between the old and new--like Philip Marlowe in the cell-phone era. **1/2 from ****
Reviewed by dfranzen70 7 / 10

Message movie masquerading as mystery

Reviewed by Buddy-51 7 / 10

moody, neo-film noir

In "The Missing Person," Michael Shannon goes the Bogart route, playing a cynical, booze-soaked private detective who's hoping to find a little redemption in his latest assignment, trailing a man he knows little to nothing about – not even his name. But before long, John discovers that there's much more to this man than meets the eye, and that the two of them are strangely linked to one another through the tragedy of 9/11. In a way, each of them is a "missing person," one in a literal and one in a figurative sense. Indeed, the best thing about "The Missing Person" is that just as you think the movie is about one thing, it turns out to be about something else altogether.This moody, bluesy, boozy movie, written and directed by Noah Buschel and co-starring Amy Adams, is deliberate in its pacing and borderline pretentious in style, with characters who speak in clipped phrases, uttering half-articulated thoughts and hardboiled wisecracks as the details of the story spin themselves out. It may not be for every taste, but the movie hauntingly captures the different but equally intense responses people can have to trauma and loss.
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