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ANOTHER TIME
ANOTHER
PLACE
THE SEARCHERS
Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett play an estranged father and daughter who have to make
a journey together.
THOUGH IT’S SET IN NEW MEXICO IN 1885, THERE ARE MANY
CONTEMPORARY
ECHOES IN THE
MISSING, THE NEW
RON HOWARD FILM
STARRING TOMMY
LEE JONES AND CATE
BLANCHETT, SAYS
HAL HAYES.
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the missing
It’s a powerful, combustible kind of story about the power of a woman when the thing that is most important to her -the life of her daughter - is threatened,” says Brian Grazer, producer of The Missing. “And it is the story of a father who returns to his family and redeems himself in their eyes through an act of selfless bravery.”
The woman in question is Maggie Gilkeson, played by Cate Blanchett, who lives on an isolated homestead in the Valles Caldera region of New Mexico, near the Mexican border - the landscape made famous by artist Georgia O’Keefe. Her father, Samuel Jones (Tommy Lee Jones), abandoned his family when Maggie was a baby, eager to pursue his own interests and reluctant to be tied down by responsibilities. Maggie has never forgiven him and, when he returns, will have nothing to do with him.
But, during a brutal attack by a bunch of renegades led by Pesh-Chidin (Eric Schweig), Maggie’s teenage daughter Lilly (Evan Rachel Wood, from art-house hit Thirteen) is abducted and taken to be sold into slavery in Mexico - a common occurrence in the Southwest at the end of the 19th century.
Jones now has a way - albeit a very risky way - to redeem himself. His 20-year absence has been spent living among the Apache, whose language he speaks and whose tracking skills he has learned. So he and Maggie set off together to get Lilly back.
“TOMMY LEE IS AMONG A SMALL GROUP OF ACTORS WHO NOT ONLY HAVE STAR POWER, BUT A RAW ENERGY THAT IS FRAUGHT WITH DANGER”
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