The Missing (2003)

When her family is attacked by a rogue band of Apaches, Cate Blanchett teams up with her estranged father Tommy Lee Jones to rescue her eldest daughter Evan Rachel Wood from being sold in Mexico. The story is a bit of a long, slow burn that I experienced better when watching in two sessions. It has a rather stacked cast with the phenomenal performances by Jones and Blanchett bolstered by the likes of Ray McKinnon, Val Kilmer, and Elisabeth Moss. The craggy New Mexico landscape is well shot with the cold winter adding to the atmosphere of dread and desperation.   Western

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