Seemingly at a dead end, June is about to give up but manages to access her mother's e-mail. Later, June views live footage of a police raid in Colombia focusing on Kevin, who is shot and killed despite surrendering. She then discovers Heather's corpse in a storage closet. June sneaks into Heather's office but finds it ransacked and with files deleted. Swearing by her mother's innocence, June's suspicions fall on Heather when she discovers an encrypted line of communication between her and Kevin. It is later revealed that Grace has had multiple aliases as well, sparking speculation that she had something to do with her own disappearance. As the case makes national headlines, Rachel confesses she was unaware of Kevin's intentions when she accompanied him to Colombia. June uncovers this as a fabricated event, as she discovered Kevin had hired a lookalike actress named Rachel Page to impersonate her mother, who had been kidnapped en route to the airport beforehand. June eventually accesses her mother's online dating profile, where past messages reveal that her mother was already aware of Kevin's past.įBI agent Elijah Park informs June that he received footage of a band of criminals seemingly kidnapping Kevin and Grace in Colombia. He tells her that Kevin has been rehabilitated and is genuinely in love with Grace. She traces Kevin's past movements to a location in Nevada, where she talks to Jimmy, a man claiming to be a pastor at a Christian rehabilitation center for ex-convicts. Believing Kevin to have kidnapped her mother, June has Javier look for clues as to their whereabouts in Colombia. Upon hacking into Kevin's Gmail account, June discovers a number of aliases and a criminal record of scamming many women for their money. She also hires Javier, a Colombian gig worker who complies with June's requests for a small fee. When the FBI attache to the consolate are unable to make any headway, June decides to investigate herself using an array of digital tools at her disposal. Years later, June's mother Grace leaves for a week-long trip to Cartagena, Colombia, with her boyfriend Kevin, leaving June in the care of Grace's friend Heather, a divorce lawyer who expresses some jealousy at Grace's relationship with Kevin.Ī week later, June is tasked with retrieving her mother and Kevin from Los Angeles International Airport, but they never arrive. In an archive video, a young June Allen is with her deceased father James, who died from a brain tumor shortly after the video was made. The film received positive reviews from critics and has grossed $48 million at the box office. Missing had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2023, and was released in the United States the following day, by Sony Pictures Releasing. Missing also serves as a spiritual sequel to Run (2020), directed by Searching director Chaganty and edited by Merrick and Johnson, confirming the fates of that film's characters. Reid and Long joined the cast in the spring of 2021, and filming took place in Los Angeles from March to May that year after delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Its plot follows June Allen, a teenager who tries to find her missing mother after she disappears on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend.Īn anthology sequel to Searching was announced in 2019, with Merrick and Johnson, who edited the first film, signing on to make their directorial debuts in January 2021. It stars Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, and Nia Long. The film is a standalone sequel to Searching (2018). Missing is a 2023 American screenlife thriller film written and directed by Will Merrick and Nick Johnson (in their feature directorial debuts) from a story by Sev Ohanian and Aneesh Chaganty, who also produced the film with Natalie Qasabian.
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