Missing

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers… and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

Being a Jew is an American thriller film released on January 19, 2023 at the Sundance Film Festival. So this film was directed by Will Merrick and Nick Johnson with a budget of $7 million.

Ingitrim is described as an unofficial sequel to John Cho’s The Mirror. It’s about Storm Reid, who tries to find her missing mother from the comfort of her home using an online tool. The film, like “Waiting”, tells the story entirely based on the computer screen.

The main character is Juni, the main character who is praised for being smart and capable. While “Being Envy” feels like a misstep with the computer screen story, people praise it for not rushing.

Storm Reid’s acting is commendable, and the character’s relationship with her missing mother adds a sense of empathy to the story. Being Jewish isn’t just a great movie because it’s a well-made movie with a great story, surprising twists, and a great performance by Storm Reid. Filmmakers care about telling a good story.

It is a 2023 scripted thriller film starring Will Merrick and Nick Johnson (in his directorial debut) from a story by Seve Ohanian with Anish Chaganti and Nathalie Kasabian. The film is a standalone sequel to Search (2018). Starring Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney and Nia Long. The plot follows June Allen, a teenager who tries to find her missing mother after she and her new boyfriend disappear on vacation in Colombia.

A sequel to the anthology The Quest was announced in 2019, and Merrick and Johnson, who edited the first film, are signed on to make their directorial debut in January 2021. Reid and Long are cast in spring 2021, and the film will be shot in Los Angeles. Angeles in March-May of that year, after a delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film, directed by investigative director Chaganti and edited by Merrick and Johnson, serves as a spiritual sequel to Run (2020), which confirms the fate of the characters from that film.

It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2023, and was released in the United States the next day by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and earned $48 million at the box office.

Plot

June Allen, 18, lives with her single mother, Grace, in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Despite being close, June grows tired of Grace’s attempts to control her life. While Grace travels to Cartagena, Colombia with her boyfriend Kevin, June spends her time avoiding her mother’s lawyer friend Heather.

A week later, June waits for her mother and Kevin at LAX, but they never show up, and a search of the hotel shows that the luggage was never left behind. After the FBI attaché at the American consulate fails to ask for anything, June decides to investigate herself and eventually hires Javier, a Colombian worker who meets June’s low-wage demands.

June cracked the password to Kevin’s Gmail account, revealing several aliases and a criminal record for defrauding many women of money. Convinced that Kevin was kidnapped by his mother, June searches for information about Javier’s whereabouts in Colombia. He traced Kevin’s past to a location in Nevada, where he talked to Jimmy, a pastor at a Christian rehabilitation center for ex-convicts, who revealed that Kevin had been rehabilitated and truly loved Grace; Kevin’s online dating profile seems to confirm this, as previous reports indicate that his mother is aware of Kevin’s past.

In June, FBI agent Elias Park reported that he received a video of a group of criminals kidnapping Kevin and Grace in Columbia. June revealed that it was a made-up story because Kevin hired a look-alike actress named Rachel Page to portray her mother, who was kidnapped on the way to LAX, and the internet freaked out that Grace had used a different name in it. past, and that Aisyah has something to do with her disappearance.

Sworn by her mother’s innocence, June opens an encrypted line of communication between Kevin and Kevin, causing Heather to confront her intention to retrieve her faulty evidence, only to find it leaked on her office computer. has been broken. He later found Heather’s body in a storage closet. Later, in June, live footage of a raid targeting Kevin, who was shot and killed even though the police surrendered in Colombia, was shown.

In the end, June looks like she’s about to give up and shut down her computer, but she finds her mother’s email password from an old voicemail. Checking the blocked user, he discovers a threatening email directed to Grace, which leads him to find a security camera that Kevin bought installed in an abandoned house, an old vacation home in Nevada.

Jimmy arrives and discovers that June’s father is James, who died of a brain tumor when June was a child. He claims that Grace is emotionally unstable and took June after her arrest on false charges. However, June learns that James and Kevin planned the ruse, not knowing that Kevin was in the same prison during his incarceration. James is revealed to be a drug addict and a danger to his family; Grace and Heather told him in June that she was dying of cancer to protect him. James sought revenge by presenting Grace and June as his future girlfriend, whom they met in prison to find out.

James kidnaps June and takes her to the abandoned house where Grace is being held. Grace found out that James had taken June and tried to escape, but was shot. James tries to leave with June, but Grace stabs him in the neck with the edge of a broken glass. James locks them in the room again and tries to find the nearest hospital on his computer, but then dies. June uses the audio from the security camera to call Siri 911, realizing that James had closed his laptop when he was kidnapped.

A year later, Grace has survived June’s shooting in college. Their story was adapted into a true crime show, and Grace began a friendship with Javier after they met in June. June writes to her mother that she loves her, and Grace tells her that she loves him too.

Production

In August 2019, it was announced that The Quest (2018) would be a standalone sequel, with the film’s original director, Anish Chaganty, developing the series, stating that the story “will not follow the original characters or plot lines”. anthology.  In November 2020, producer Natalie Kasabian stated that the COVID-19 pandemic had delayed the production of the film, which was only titled Research 2.  In January 2021, it was announced that Will Merrick and Nick Johnson, the editors of the first film and Chaganty’s Run (2020), will write the film with additional writing from Micah Ariel Watson and additional writing from producer Micah Ariel Watson. Timur Bekmambetov, Unfriended and Seeking, continues the performance with Ohanian, Chaganty and Kasabian. In the following months, Storm Reid and Nia Long were fired.

Principal photography will take place from March 30 to May 30, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.  In September 2022, it was announced that the film’s title would be English and a 2023 release date was set for the film.  In November 2022, producer and co-writer Sev Ohanian revealed on Reddit that the film would be shot after Run, an epilogue to the events of that film, and a sequel to The Quest.

Release

Missing was theatrically released in the United States on January 20, by Sony Pictures Releasing under their Screen Gems banner. It was originally scheduled for February 24, 2023

Missing was released on Amazon Prime Video on March 7, 2023, and on DVD and Blu-ray on March 28, 2023.It was then released on Netflix on May 20th, and became the number 1 most streamed movie in the US within 2 days.

Box office

Missing grossed $32.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $16.3 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $48.8 million

Missing made $3.4 million on its first day, including $760,000 from Thursday night previews