Search - The Missing [Superbit] on DVD

MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Western Violence Movie Release: 2003 DVD Release: 10/26/2004 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 16 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Western, Revisionist Western See Also: The Missing [Fullscreen], The Missing [Widescreen], The Missing, The Missing [Extended Cut]

Director Ron Howard turns to the Western genre in this tale of a father and daughter who are brought together under difficult circumstances. Samuel Jones (Tommy Lee Jones) is a man living in New Mexico in the 1880s. He had abandoned his family years before to live and travel with a band of Apaches, but his conscience has finally gotten the better of him and he's decided to return home. Jones, however, does not receive a warm welcome upon arrival -- his wife has died and his daughter Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett), now grown and raising two children with her husband Brake (Aaron Eckhart), has no desire to see the man who left her mother to fend for herself. As Jones prepares to depart on a note of bitterness, a band of ruthless bandits, let by Army deserter Chidin (Eric Schweig), descends upon the homestead, murdering Brake and kidnapping his 15-year-old daughter Lily (Evan Rachel Wood). While Maggie feels no desire to forgive her father, she realizes he's her best hope to track down the criminals who took her child, and Jones and Maggie team up to find the bandits before they can disappear into Mexico. The Missing was based on the novel -The Last Ride by Thomas Eidson. Val Kilmer and Jenna Boyd highlight the supporting cast. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Jones
Cate Blanchett - Maggie Gilkeson
Eric Schweig - Chidin
Evan Rachel Wood - Lily Gilkeson
Jenna Boyd - Dot Gilkeson
Aaron Eckhart - Brake Baldwin

This gritty but intelligent Western has been given the videophile treatment in this special "Superbit" DVD release, in which the images have been transferred using an excellerated sampling rate, giving the picture a much greater sharpness and detail. This version of The Missing appears in letterboxed format at the widescreen aspect ratio of 2.40:1, which has been enhanced for anamorphic play on 16 x 9 monitors. The English-language audio has been mixed in two formats, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1, while optional subtitles are available in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai. No additional bonus materials have been included in order to devote additional data space for the "Superbit" process. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide