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Missing in America

Missing in America (2005)

January. 01,2005
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6.5
| Drama

A haunted Vietnam veteran, living in exile in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, is faced with a life-changing decision after he is visited by a former platoon member and his young Amerasian daughter.

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ThiefHott
2005/01/01

Too much of everything

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Mjeteconer
2005/01/02

Just perfect...

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BeSummers
2005/01/03

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

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Ella-May O'Brien
2005/01/04

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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jpmcdunn-621-245368
2005/01/05

Ms. Weizenbaum is absolutely charming in this movie. With movie icons like Danny Glover, Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman and David Strathairn, that is no easy fête, but Zoe steals that show. I have to write ten lines but I don't want to be pedantic , so I have to may the program think I wrote more. Ms. Weizenbaum is absolutely charming in this movie. With movie icons like Danny Glover, Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman and David Strathairn, that is no easy fête, but Zoe steals that show. I have to write ten lines but I don't want to be pedantic , so I have to may the program think I wrote more. Ms. Weizenbaum is absolutely charming in this movie. With movie icons like Danny Glover, Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman and David Strathairn, that is no easy fête, but Zoe steals that show. I have to write ten lines but I don't want to be pedantic , so I have to may the program think I wrote more. Ms. Weizenbaum is absolutely charming in this movie. With movie icons like Danny Glover, Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman and David Strathairn, that is no easy fête, but Zoe steals that show. I have to write ten lines but I don't want to be pedantic , so I have to may the program think I wrote more.

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kevin-477
2005/01/06

Given the cast and the type of story being told, I had high hopes for this movie. Within about 10 minutes, however, I was beginning to realise I'd been sold a pup. The main fault lies with the writing. The characters just aren't developed well enough to be even remotely believable, and what psychology they have is all wrong. Danny Glover's character, for instance, is a Vietnam vet who's taken himself off to the backwoods and turned his back on society. The only real face-to-face contact he has with another human comes once a month at the grocery store - and that's hardly a memorable or happy communion. But then, within a few short scenes, he's reconciled to this difficult child of an army pal he hasn't seen for decades. The child has lost her father - the emotional centre of her life at that point - but doesn't seem to suffer much in the way of grief (unless you call a few nights of tears grief). There was a great movie to be made here. Unfortunately, due to the bad writing, that movie didn't materialise. I disagree with critics who say it was badly acted. The actors did their level best with the script they were given. You can only be as good as the material you have to work with.

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dogshowaddict
2005/01/07

I haven't even sniffled at a movie in an awfully long time, but I bawled during Missing in America. twice I'm looking forward to checking with my comrades at my American Legion post. Maybe we ought to get together for a showing. Indeed, I'm not a combat vet, but am a disabled vet of the navy. Having spent a lot of time, dating back to the early 80s, in VA hospitals, I can't state that I completely understand what these men have gone through in the ensuing decades, but I've probably seen it a lot more closely than many middle-aged women. The movie BEAUTIFULLY portrayed the variety of modes of emotional survival that might evolve among America's proud service men and women of the Viet Nam war.

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fs0002
2005/01/08

The ending where the little girl died was terrible. The movie builds you up to really like the characters, then lets you down by killing one of the main players. I spent $29 for the DVD and promptly threw it in the garbage can,whereas the writers and producers should have done this in the first place. What really bothers me is when the crazy-man tries to kill the little girl, then when she is saved by Jake, she decides to go for a walk just where this crazy man lives. When she trips the wire that would have killed her, crazy-man saves her life, which is good; you feel good that she was saved, then 2 minutes later she runs into another trap that promptly kills her. Why what is the point of the whole movie?

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