Posted on 26/11/03
Lost on the range
The MissingDirected by Ron HowardWritten by Ken KaufmanStarring Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee JonesClassification: 14ARating: **Buoyed and perhaps inflated by his Oscar success with A Beautiful Mind, director Ron Howard (How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Apollo 13) has decided to throw his Stetson in the ring of that most durable and popular of American genres, the western. Shot in classic widescreen, the film features a pair of broad-as-the-frontier performances by Cate Blanchett as a "healer" and Tommy Lee Jones as her estranged father who lives as an Indian, as they join on a quest to save a teenaged girl from an Apache kidnapper.
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