Missing (1982) on Netflix
When the journalist Charles Horman disappears during a military coup in Chile, his wife Beth and his father Ed, a conservative New York businessman, set out to find him.
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Plot summary
Chile, September 1973. Charles Horman, an American journalist, is in Valparaiso with his wife Beth and his friend Terry Simon when a military coup overthrows President Salvador Allende. The military arrests Charles. His father Ed, a conservative New York businessman, travels to Chile and joins Beth in the search for him. The two argue about politics: Ed holds Charles's and Beth's radical views responsible for the disappearance, while Beth blames the American government. At the American Consulate, Consul Phil Putnam pledges the best efforts to find Charles, though Beth does not trust the American authorities. Ed draws on his connections to meet government and military officials.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Missing (1982)
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- Missing was banned in Chile under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship even though the film never names Chile or Pinochet outright, identifying the setting only through the real cities of Viña del Mar and Santiago and the airline LAN Chile.
- Former U.S. ambassador Nathaniel Davis and two others sued director Costa-Gavras and Universal's parent company MCA for libel, and in 1983 both the film and its source book were pulled from the U.S. market as a result. Davis eventually lost the case, clearing the way for Universal to re-release Missing in 2006.
- At the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Missing shared the Palme d'Or with the Turkish film Yol, while its star Jack Lemmon separately won the festival's Best Actor prize.
- The film was shot in Mexico with a budget of $9.5 million from Universal Studios, marking Costa-Gavras' most expensive production, with the city of Acapulco serving as a stand-in for Viña del Mar and interiors shot at Estudios Churubusco.
- Composer Vangelis wrote the score for Missing, and its piano theme went on to be widely used in commercials, yet the soundtrack itself has never had an official release; the theme first appeared on Vangelis' 1989 album Themes and was paired with Chariots of Fire's "Eric's Theme" on a 1989 Polydor single.
