The Missing is an American Revisionist Western thriller film directed by Ron Howard, based on Thomas Eidson’s 1996 novel The Last Ride. The film is set in 1885 New Mexico Territory and is notable for the authentic use of the Apache language by various actors, some of whom spent long hours studying it. The film…
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Thirteen Production Notes (2003)
From a first-time director and two teenage actresses comes a raw and revealing insight into urban adolescence in 2003, a provocative portrait of what teens today are thinking, doing, feeling and going through. Winner of the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Catherine Hardwicke’s THIRTEEN is a unique project co-written with then-13-year-old Nikki Reed…
The Missing (2003)
Tagline: How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost? In the 1880’s after a very long disappearance a father returns to find the family he left behind to live with the natives. His estranged daughter Maggie is not pleased by his sudden arrival. When Maggie’s daughter…
Thirteen (2003)
A young straight-A student befriends a schoolmate who eventually turns her on to sex, drugs, and self-mutilation, in addition to convincing her to ditch studying. Holly Hunter plays the girl’s mom and is powerless to stop her daughter’s descent. Thirteen is Catherine Hardwicke’s explosive portrait of teenage girls at their very worst. Mean, manipulative, conniving,…