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With MISSING, Costa-Gavras (Z; STATE OF SEIGE; THE CONFESSION), one of cinema's most political filmmakers, turned his attention to the alleged US involvement in the coup that led to the death of socialist Chilean president Salvador Allende in 1973. Based on Thomas Hauser's The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice, Costa-Gavras's first Hollywood-produced film presents an only slightly fictionalized account of the disappearance of American expatriate writer Charles Horman (John Shea) in Santiago (though neither the city nor Chile are ever mentioned) just after a military coup. His wife, Beth (Sissy Spacek), and his conservative father, Ed (Jack Lemmon), who has traveled from the US, become a political odd couple as they search for Charles, growing closer as they run into the official stonewalling of American embassy and Chilean authorities who insist there is no trace of Charles. Costa-Gavras pulled so few punches in this powerful, provocative thriller that then-Secretary of State Alexander Haig felt compelled to issue categorical denials of the film's allegations. Few films fuse the personal and the political as successfully as MISSING, and Lemmon and Spacek bring tremendous feeling to their portrayals. Though Costa-Gavras clearly has a political axe to grind, he manages to do so without haranguing the viewer, keeping the film's focus on his characters and masterfully building tension as the story moves toward its stinging resolution.

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It's fascinating to look back on the original reviews for Costa-Gavras' Missing (1982). Most gave the film high marks for drama, performances and the sheer chutzpah of daring to make a film that concludes U.S. government officials knew of and were even implicated in the murder of left-wing American journalist Charles Horman in Chile in 1973. But they were also quick to point out that the film didn't actually prove this. In The New York Times, Vincent Canby even went so far as to raise questions of whether the contention makes sense. In 1999, declassified documents proved the validity of the film's conclusion. Time has neatly vindicated Costa-Gavras' film on this point.

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In another sense, time has not only been kind to the film itself, but has, – unfortunately – made it relevant all over again. Though Missing is about the attempts of Horman's wife, Beth (Sissy Spacek), and his father, Ed (Jack Lemmon), to find out what happened to him – in fact, even to determine if he's alive or dead – it's really about the father's political awakening. As the film starts out, Ed Horman is a card-carrying conservative with a complete distaste for the political views of his son and daughter-in-law – and with complete faith in the truthfulness of his own government. The further he goes in uncovering the truth, the more impossible it becomes for him to hold to those beliefs.

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Costa-Gavras builds this picture slowly and powerfully, wisely relying in the acting skills of his lead performers to carry the dramatic burden and make the characters human rather than simplistic types. If it falls a little short of his classic Z (1969), that's only because Z is an almost impossible act to follow.

Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress

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Costa-Gavras ("State Of Siege"/"Z"/"The Sleeping Car Murder") directs a powerful, influential and tense political thriller based on a true story (though slightly fictionalized) of the execution of a left-wing young journalist during Chile's military coup in 1973, supposedly because he knew something that would involve his government in the coup. The controversial film unabashedly tells about the covert US involvment in the 1973 military coup of the democratically elected socialist Chilean president, Salvador Allende, something denied by the Nixon administration. It's based on lawyer Thomas Hauser's book The Execution Of Charles Horman, and is tautly and passionately co-written by Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart.

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It's the first English speaking Hollywood film made by Costa-Gavras. Jack Lemmon gives one of his best performances ever, earning him an Oscar nomination for best actor. It did win an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was shot in Mexico.

Conservative Christian Science New York businessman Ed Horman (Jack Lemmon) travels to Santiago, Chile, when his counterculture daughter-in-law Beth Horman (Sissy Spacek) informs him her spirited offbeat writer and filmmaker husband Charlie (John Shea) is inexplicably missing after the bloody right-wing military coup in September and the American Embassy is not helpful (they are the visible villains of the film and include the oily consul David Clennon, the treacherous security man soldier Charles Cioffi and the double-talking ambassador Richard Venture, who are never truthful). In the end, Ed finds out through the Ford Foundation's economic adviser that he heard his son was executed a month ago when interned in Chile’s National Stadium with thousands of other leftists. It's believed that about 750 of them were summarily executed without any kind of trial.

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The businessman at the end of his torturous visit, of getting the runaround from the embassy officials for over a month, learns that he was wrong to blindly believe his government as he discovers the hard way that his government cares more about the interests of big business over those of its ordinary citizens. Though dad came here disapproving of his flaky son's free-spirited lifestyle, he leaves upset learning that the establishment figures he always admired are liars and not trustworthy of protecting the basic democratic values of his beloved country–something his son and radical friends are willing to do despite being so naive and powerless.

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What's haunting is the violent street scenes and the excessive force mounted by the ominous military patrols, as they crackdown on curfew violators and known political rivals in a mind-boggling brutal fashion. They act like fascists, bolstered by their unreported American advisers, intimidating the population to the point that even during an earthquake the citizens fear going outside and violating the curfew.

Few films impact real life like do the films of Costa-Gavras. This one rattled the US government so much, that upon the film's release in 1982 the then-Secretary of State Alexander Haig, appointed by President Reagan, was forced to issue indisputable denials of the film's allegations–a statement only believed by the gullible.

Dennis Schwartz: "Ozus' World Movie Reviews"

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Special Features:
- Video interviews with Costa-Gavras (2) - 32:29, Joyce Horman (wife of Charles Horman) - 30:19, producers Edward and Mildred Lewis and Sean Daniel, and Thomas Hauser, author of The Execution of Charles Horman, the film’s source - 17:27
- Video interviews from the 1982 Cannes Film Festival with Costa-Gavras, Jack Lemmon, Ed Horman (father of Charles), and Joyce Horman - 19:22
- Video interview with Peter Kornbluh, author of The Pinochet File, examining declassified documents concerning the 1973 military coup in Chile and the case of Charles Horman - entitled 'Pursuing Truth' 19;28
- Highlights from the 2002 Charles Horman Truth Project event honoring Missing, with actors Sissy Spacek, John Shea, and Melanie Mayron, among others (20:50)
- Theatrical trailer
- 36-page liner notes booklet featuring a new essay by critic Michael Wood, an open letter from Horman family friend Terry Simon, an interview with Costa-Gavras, and the U.S. State Department’s official response to Missing

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