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Missing
Title:
Missing
Uniform Title:
Missing (Motion picture : 1982)
ISBN:
9781604650631
Publication Information:
Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, 2008
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : black and white, illustrations ; 19 cm.)
General Note:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1982.

Based on the book The execution of Charles Horman / by Thomas Hauser.
Contents:
Charles and Terry -- Back home with Beth -- "They can't hurt us" -- Past curfew -- Ed Horman in D.C. -- Two weeks missing -- "The hiding theory" -- Viña Del Mar -- Capt. Ray Tower -- Charles's arrest -- Another theory -- Teruggi and Holloway -- "I just want my boy back" -- Hospital inquiries -- Getting to know Charlie -- National stadium -- Italian Embassy -- Charles's notes -- Morgue -- Closer -- Ford Foundation -- Reason to believe -- Call from Putnam -- Going home -- Color bars

Costa-Gravas video interview excerpted from the 1982 television news program JA2 20H [featurette] (33 min.) -- Joyce Horman on "Missing", interview with the widow of Charles Horman [featurette] (30 min.) -- Producing "Missing", interview with producers Edward and Mildred Lewis and Sean Daniel, and author of the source novel Thomas Hauser [featurette] (18 min.) --1982 Cannes Film Festival interview with Lemmon, Costa-Gavras, Charles' father Ed Horman, and family friend Terry Simon [featurette] (20 min.) -- Pursuing truth: an interview with Peter Kornbluh, director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project [featurette] (20 min.) -- In honor of "Missing", 2002 award ceremony held by the Charles Horman Truth Project for the film [featurette] (21 min.);
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: PG.
Added Title:
Execution of Charles Horman.

Real people.

Who would care about us if we disappeared?

Interview with Costa-Gavras.
Summary:
As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed always found his son flaky and naïve, and didn't approve of his lifestyle, but he joins Joyce in a wild-goose chase through bureaucratic dead ends. They eventually come to suspect that the American consulate is lying to them about Charles' disappearance and about their country's investment in the coup's success. Ed makes the transition from unquestioning patriot to newly awakened skeptic of U.S. covert activities, a decent citizen who embodies the conscience of a nation.
System Details:
DVD; REGION 1, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1) ASPECT RATIO, DOLBY DIGITAL 1.0 MONO SOUND (ENGLISH AND SPANISH), DUAL LAYER, NTSC.
Language Note:
IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH DIALOGUE; WITH OPTIONAL SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH (SDH) FOR THE DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING.
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