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In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.


“How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost?”
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.

Cate Blanchett
Maggie Gilkeson

Tommy Lee Jones
Samuel Jones

Evan Rachel Wood
Lilly Gilkeson

Jenna Boyd
Dot Gilkeson

Aaron Eckhart
Brake Baldwin

Val Kilmer
Lt. Jim Ducharme

Eric Schweig
Pesh-Chidin / El Brujo

Steve Reevis
Two Stone

Jay Tavare
Kayitah

Simon Baker
Honesco, Kayitah's son
The Missing is a thriller, western, adventure film released in 2003 exploring themes of daughter, mexico, based on novel or book, new mexico, apache nation, baby-snatching. Directed by Ron Howard, it stars Cate Blanchett, Tommy Lee Jones, Evan Rachel Wood. 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.
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