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* BrokenPedastal: While June is originally a fan of the true crime show "''Unfiction''", [[spoiler:she loses any respect for it after they make an episode about Grace's kidnapping.]]

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* BrokenPedastal: BrokenPedestal: While June is originally a fan of the true crime show "''Unfiction''", [[spoiler:she loses any respect for it after they make an episode about Grace's kidnapping.]]
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* AdaptedOut: [[spoiler:Done InUniverse to Javi when "''Unfiction''" does an episode on Grace's disappearance.]]


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* BrokenPedastal: While June is originally a fan of the true crime show "''Unfiction''", [[spoiler:she loses any respect for it after they make an episode about Grace's kidnapping.]]

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* RedHerring: Towards the end of the second act, June finds [[spoiler:Heather's]] number was used [[spoiler:in the encrypted text app]], leading June to suspect their involvement in Grace's disappearance. [[spoiler:Heather ends up murdered before June can confront her. It then later turns out Heather was actually being blackmailed and trying to help protect June]]

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Towards the end of the second act, June finds [[spoiler:Heather's]] number was used [[spoiler:in the encrypted text app]], leading June to suspect their involvement in Grace's disappearance. [[spoiler:Heather ends up murdered before June can confront her. It then later turns out Heather was actually being blackmailed and trying to help protect June]]June]]
** When June accesses the text conversations between Grace and Kevin, we learn that [[spoiler:Grace is hiding something in her past, something she didn't tell her daughter about. This makes her seem suspicious, and even other characters later wonder if Grace was up to something shady. However, it turns out Grace is keeping her past a secret for good reason; she needed to get her daughter away from her abusive spouse, and hiding her past was her way of attempting to keep June away from James.]]
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* StealthSequel: WordOfGod states that a FreezeFrameBonus reveals the film to be set in the same fictional universe as ''Film/{{Run}}''.

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* StealthSequel: WordOfGod states that There are a few instances of FreezeFrameBonus reveals that reveal the film to be set in the same fictional universe as ''Film/{{Run}}''.''Film/{{Run}}''. One news ticker reveals that Diane Sherman, the antagonist of that film, has since escaped the corrections facility she was confined to at the end.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: The opening scene features the voices of people close to Grace offering condolences after [[spoiler:James's supposed death. Once his true nature is revealed, the voices are heard again, but they are more comments of sympathy and concern over her escaping James's abuse. Likewise the opening scene with James having the bloody nose was not a symptom of a brain tumor but instead from his drug use]]
* PlotTwist: [[spoiler:Grace never went to Colombia in the first place and the woman seen with Kevin on the trip is an unwitting actress he hired to pose as her]].
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: June is able to break into ''most'' of Kevin and Grace's various user accounts because they both reuse passwords. The fact that Grace used a variation for her Gmail keeps June from easily guessing it util the end.

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* OnceMoreWithClarity: The opening scene features the voices of people close to Grace offering condolences after [[spoiler:James's supposed death. Once his true nature is revealed, the voices are heard again, but they are more comments of sympathy and concern over her escaping James's abuse. Likewise the opening scene with James having the bloody nose was not a symptom of a brain tumor but instead from his drug use]]
* PlotTwist: [[spoiler:Grace never went to Colombia in the first place and the woman seen with Kevin on the trip is an unwitting actress he hired to pose as her]].
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: June is able to break into ''most'' of Kevin and Grace's various user accounts because they both reuse passwords. The fact that Grace used a variation for her Gmail keeps June from easily guessing it util until the end.end.
* PlotTwist: [[spoiler:Grace never went to Colombia in the first place and the woman seen with Kevin on the trip is an unwitting actress he hired to pose as her]].

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'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/seBixtcx19E Trailer]]

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'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/seBixtcx19E [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seBixtcx19E Trailer]]



* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[spoiler: In the end, Grace looks pretty good all things considered for having spent two weeks locked in a filthy shack in Nevada.]]

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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[spoiler: In [[spoiler:In the end, Grace looks pretty good all things considered for having spent two weeks locked in a filthy shack in Nevada.]]



** The Apple Watch. One of June's friends forgets his during the party in the beginning, and asks her several times for it back. [[spoiler: June ends up using it twice. Once when she goes to confront Heather, she uses it as an improvised recording device. She uses it again in the climax to contact Javi to get him to call the police. However, she's able to call the police separately before his call goes through.]]

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** The Apple Watch. One of June's friends forgets his during the party in the beginning, and asks her several times for it back. [[spoiler: June [[spoiler:June ends up using it twice. Once when she goes to confront Heather, she uses it as an improvised recording device. She uses it again in the climax to contact Javi to get him to call the police. However, she's able to call the police separately before his call goes through.]]



* ConMan: Kevin turns out to be one, having spent several years in prison for defrauding several previous women. The police at first don't consider him a suspect, as he used his own name and seemingly told Grace about his criminal past, [[spoiler: but it turns out James hired him to seduce Grace so that he could kidnap her.]]

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* ConMan: Kevin turns out to be one, having spent several years in prison for defrauding several previous women. The police at first don't consider him a suspect, as he used his own name and seemingly told Grace about his criminal past, [[spoiler: but [[spoiler:but it turns out James hired him to seduce Grace so that he could kidnap her.]]



* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler:Detective Vick in ''Searching'' was an AntiVillain who was simply trying to protect her son from being implicated in Margot’s disappearance. Here, James Allen is an abusive spouse who resorts to murder to get back to his daughter.]]

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* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler:Detective Vick in ''Searching'' was an AntiVillain who was simply trying to protect her son from being implicated in Margot’s Margot's disappearance. Here, James Allen is an abusive spouse who resorts to murder to get back to his daughter.]]



** Kevin mentions early on that he fixed June's laptop recently. [[spoiler: He actually installed spyware that lets James spy on her.]]
** June never sees her mother's face in all of the photos that Kevin sends her, just her from behind or slightly out of view. [[spoiler: This is because she ''isn't'' Grace at all, but an actress Kevin hired.]]

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** Kevin mentions early on that he fixed June's laptop recently. [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He actually installed spyware that lets James spy on her.]]
** June never sees her mother's face in all of the photos that Kevin sends her, just her from behind or slightly out of view. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This is because she ''isn't'' Grace at all, but an actress Kevin hired.]]



* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: Grace uses a shard of a mirror, that broke when James shot her, to fatally stab him in the neck.]]

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* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: Grace [[spoiler:Grace uses a shard of a mirror, that broke when James shot her, to fatally stab him in the neck.]]



* OnceMoreWithClarity: The opening scene features the voices of people close to Grace offering condolences after [[spoiler:James’s supposed death. Once his true nature is revealed, the voices are heard again, but they are more comments of sympathy and concern over her escaping James’s abuse. Likewise the opening scene with James having the bloody nose was not a symptom of a brain tumor but instead from his drug use]]
* PlotTwist: [[spoiler: Grace never went to Colombia in the first place and the woman seen with Kevin on the trip is an unwitting actress he hired to pose as her]].

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* OnceMoreWithClarity: The opening scene features the voices of people close to Grace offering condolences after [[spoiler:James’s [[spoiler:James's supposed death. Once his true nature is revealed, the voices are heard again, but they are more comments of sympathy and concern over her escaping James’s James's abuse. Likewise the opening scene with James having the bloody nose was not a symptom of a brain tumor but instead from his drug use]]
* PlotTwist: [[spoiler: Grace [[spoiler:Grace never went to Colombia in the first place and the woman seen with Kevin on the trip is an unwitting actress he hired to pose as her]].



* RedHerring: Towards the end of the second act, June finds [[spoiler:Heather’s]] number was used [[spoiler:in the encrypted text app]], leading June to suspect their involvement in Grace’s disappearance. [[spoiler:Heather ends up murdered before June can confront her. It then later turns out Heather was actually being blackmailed and trying to help protect June]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:June’s father James did not die of a tumor as it was heavily implied in the beginning. Grace lied to June about this as they were escaping his abuse after Grace had reported him to the police for drug possession. Following his release, he tracked June and Grace down.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: The film features a Creator/{{Netflix}} true crime Doc series called ''Unfiction'', which has its first season document Margot Kim’s disappearance from ''Searching''. The ending shows that the events of Grace's abduction have also since been adapted.

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* RedHerring: Towards the end of the second act, June finds [[spoiler:Heather’s]] [[spoiler:Heather's]] number was used [[spoiler:in the encrypted text app]], leading June to suspect their involvement in Grace’s Grace's disappearance. [[spoiler:Heather ends up murdered before June can confront her. It then later turns out Heather was actually being blackmailed and trying to help protect June]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:June’s [[spoiler:June's father James did not die of a tumor as it was heavily implied in the beginning. Grace lied to June about this as they were escaping his abuse after Grace had reported him to the police for drug possession. Following his release, he tracked June and Grace down.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: The film features a Creator/{{Netflix}} true crime Doc series called ''Unfiction'', which has its first season document Margot Kim’s Kim's disappearance from ''Searching''. The ending shows that the events of Grace's abduction have also since been adapted.



* WildTeenParty: June throws one almost as soon as Grace leaves for her trip, using the emergency funds that Grace left for her.

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* WildTeenParty: June throws one almost as soon as Grace leaves for her trip, using the emergency funds that Grace left for her.her.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: Grace uses a shard of a mirror, that broke when James shot her, to fatally stab him in the neck]].

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* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: Grace uses a shard of a mirror, that broke when James shot her, to fatally stab him in the neck.]].

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** Kevin mentions early on that he fixed June's laptop recently. [[spoiler: He actually installed spyware that jet James spy on her.]]

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** Kevin mentions early on that he fixed June's laptop recently. [[spoiler: He actually installed spyware that jet lets James spy on her.]]
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%%* PlotTwist: One after another through the entire film.

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%%* * PlotTwist: One after another through [[spoiler: Grace never went to Colombia in the entire film.first place and the woman seen with Kevin on the trip is an unwitting actress he hired to pose as her]].
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When June starts to go through Kevin's information, she shows it to the police to point as information they can use to find and investigate Kevin. However they inform her that they can't operate with the information she gave them because she obtain that information illegally and thus the police would not be able to use that in building a case against him.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When June starts to go through hacks into several of Kevin's information, accounts, she shows it to the police to point as information they she gathers to Agent Park, presuming he can use to find and investigate Kevin. However they inform he informs her that they the FBI can't operate with the information she gave them because she obtain that information obtained it illegally and thus the police would not it cannot be able to use that used in building a case against him.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Several points:
** Kevin mentions early on that he fixed June's laptop recently. [[spoiler: He actually installed spyware that jet James spy on her.]]
** June never sees her mother's face in all of the photos that Kevin sends her, just her from behind or slightly out of view. [[spoiler: This is because she ''isn't'' Grace at all, but an actress Kevin hired.]]



* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: Grace uses a shard of a mirror, that broke when James shot her, to fatally stab him in the neck.]]

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* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: Grace uses a shard of a mirror, that broke when James shot her, to fatally stab him in the neck.]]]].
* InUniverseCamera: Like the first film, every shot in the movie is done from the perspective of a screen of some kind, including images from webcams, phone cameras, security footage, news broadcasts. Even the climax, which seems to break this format, is actually just a recreation that June is watching on Netflix.


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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: June is able to break into ''most'' of Kevin and Grace's various user accounts because they both reuse passwords. The fact that Grace used a variation for her Gmail keeps June from easily guessing it util the end.

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''Missing'' is a standalone [[ThematicSeries thematic sequel]] and SpiritualSuccessor to the 2018 film ''Film/{{Searching}}'', and carries over its format of being told [[InUniverseCamera from the POV of laptop and phone screens]] but with new characters and plot. The co-writer and director of ''Searching'', Creator/AneeshChaganty, returned as a producer and story co-writer on this film; Johnson and Merrick initially worked with Chaganty as the editors of ''Searching'' and his second film ''Film/{{Run}}''.

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''Missing'' is a standalone [[ThematicSeries thematic sequel]] and SpiritualSuccessor to the 2018 film ''Film/{{Searching}}'', confirmed to take place in the same continuity, and carries over its format of being told [[InUniverseCamera from the POV of laptop and phone screens]] but with new characters and plot. The co-writer and director of ''Searching'', Creator/AneeshChaganty, returned as a producer and story co-writer on this film; Johnson and Merrick initially worked with Chaganty as the editors of ''Searching'' and his second film ''Film/{{Run}}''.



* ChekhovsGunman: ''Siri'' of all things. June made fun of Grace for using Siri for everything on her phone, [[spoiler:but in the end, June uses Siri to call 911 after realizing the security app in her childhood home is still opened on her laptop next to her phone.]]

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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[spoiler: In the end, Grace looks pretty good all things considered for having spent two weeks locked in a filthy shack in Nevada.]]
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** The Apple Watch. One of June's friends forgets his during the party in the beginning, and asks her several times for it back. [[spoiler: June ends up using it twice. Once when she goes to confront Heather, she uses it as an improvised recording device. She uses it again in the climax to contact Javi to get him to call the police. However, she's able to call the police separately before his call goes through.]]
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''Siri'' of all things. June made fun of Grace for using Siri for everything on her phone, [[spoiler:but in the end, June uses Siri to call 911 after realizing the security app in her childhood home is still opened on her laptop next to her phone.]]]]
* ConMan: Kevin turns out to be one, having spent several years in prison for defrauding several previous women. The police at first don't consider him a suspect, as he used his own name and seemingly told Grace about his criminal past, [[spoiler: but it turns out James hired him to seduce Grace so that he could kidnap her.]]
* ContinuityNod: June is a fan of a TrueCrime show called "''Unfiction''". The first episode we see is a dramatized recreation of the events of the film ''Film/{{Searching}}'', and June is shown to have looked up the differences between the recreation and the reality of what happened.



* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: Grace uses a shard of a mirror, that broke when James shot her, to fatally stab him in the neck.]]



* PoliceAreUseless: Subverted. June ''thinks'' they are, but it is shown that FBI agent Elijah Park is actually highly competent, and it is shown that he reaches most of the same conclusions as June, ''without'' using her illegal investigation methods.



* ShowWithinAShow: The film features a Creator/{{Netflix}} true crime Doc series called ''Unfiction'', which has its first season document Margot Kim’s disappearance from ''Searching''.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When June starts to go through Kevin's information, she shows it to the police to point as information they can use to find and investigate Kevin. However they inform her that they can't operate with the information she gave them because she obtain that information illegally and thus the police would not be able to use that in building a case against him

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* ShowWithinAShow: The film features a Creator/{{Netflix}} true crime Doc series called ''Unfiction'', which has its first season document Margot Kim’s disappearance from ''Searching''.
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* StealthSequel: WordOfGod states that a FreezeFrameBonus reveals the film to be set in the same fictional universe as ''Film/{{Run}}''.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When June starts to go through Kevin's information, she shows it to the police to point as information they can use to find and investigate Kevin. However they inform her that they can't operate with the information she gave them because she obtain that information illegally and thus the police would not be able to use that in building a case against himhim.
* WildTeenParty: June throws one almost as soon as Grace leaves for her trip, using the emergency funds that Grace left for her.

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* OnceMoreWithClarity: The opening scene features the voices of people close to Grace offering condolences after [[spoiler:James’s supposed death. Once his true nature is revealed, the voices are heard again, but they are more comments of sympathy and concern over her escaping James’s abuse.]]

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* OnceMoreWithClarity: The opening scene features the voices of people close to Grace offering condolences after [[spoiler:James’s supposed death. Once his true nature is revealed, the voices are heard again, but they are more comments of sympathy and concern over her escaping James’s abuse.]] Likewise the opening scene with James having the bloody nose was not a symptom of a brain tumor but instead from his drug use]]



* RedHerring: Towards the end of the second act, June finds [[spoiler:Heather’s]] number was used [[spoiler:in the encrypted text app]], leading June to suspect their involvement in Grace’s disappearance. [[spoiler:Heather ends up murdered before June can confront her.]]

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* RedHerring: Towards the end of the second act, June finds [[spoiler:Heather’s]] number was used [[spoiler:in the encrypted text app]], leading June to suspect their involvement in Grace’s disappearance. [[spoiler:Heather ends up murdered before June can confront her.]] It then later turns out Heather was actually being blackmailed and trying to help protect June]]



* ShowWithinAShow: The film features a Creator/{{Netflix}} true crime Doc series called ''Unfiction'', which has its first season document Margot Kim’s disappearance from ''Searching''.

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* ShowWithinAShow: The film features a Creator/{{Netflix}} true crime Doc series called ''Unfiction'', which has its first season document Margot Kim’s disappearance from ''Searching''.''Searching''.
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'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/seBixtcx19E Trailer]]
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''Missing'' is an upcoming American mystery thriller film written and directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick. The film stars Creator/StormReid, Creator/NiaLong, Creator/JoaquimDeAlmeida, Creator/KenLeung, Creator/AmyLandecker, and Creator/DanielHenney.

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''Missing'' is an upcoming a American mystery thriller film written and directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick. The film stars Creator/StormReid, Creator/NiaLong, Creator/JoaquimDeAlmeida, Creator/KenLeung, Creator/AmyLandecker, and Creator/DanielHenney.



The film premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2023, and is scheduled for release in the United States on January 20, 2023.

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* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Grace, who had just been shot in the abdomen, manages to fatally stab James in the neck when he grabs June and holds her at gunpoint.]]

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* ChekhovsGunman: ''Siri'' of all things. June made fun of Grace for using Siri for everything on her phone, [[spoiler:but in the end, June uses Siri to call 911 after realizing the security app in her childhood home is still opened on her laptop next to her phone.]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler:Detective Vick in ''Searching'' was an AntiVillain who was simply trying to protect her son from being implicated in Margot’s disappearance. Here, James Allen is an abusive spouse who resorts to murder to get back to his daughter.]]



* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Aside from June and Grace reuniting and having a better relationship, Javi is shown to have reunited with his estranged son.]]



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* OnceMoreWithClarity: The opening scene features the voices of people close to Grace offering condolences after [[spoiler:James’s supposed death. Once his true nature is revealed, the voices are heard again, but they are more comments of sympathy and concern over her escaping James’s abuse.]]
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* RedHerring: Towards the end of the second act, June finds [[spoiler:Heather’s]] number was used [[spoiler:in the encrypted text app]], leading June to suspect their involvement in Grace’s disappearance. [[spoiler:Heather ends up murdered before June can confront her.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:June’s father James did not die of a tumor as it was heavily implied in the beginning. Grace lied to June about this as they were escaping his abuse after Grace had reported him to the police for drug possession. Following his release, he tracked June and Grace down.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: The film features a Creator/{{Netflix}} true crime Doc series called ''Unfiction'', which has its first season document Margot Kim’s disappearance from ''Searching''.
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The film will premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2023, and is scheduled to then be released in the United States on January 20, 2023.

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''Missing'' is an upcoming U.S. drama film directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick. When Grace (Creator/NiaLong) goes on vacation to Colombia with her new boyfriend, she disappears. Her daughter, June (Creator/StormReid), is left alone in the U.S. with the police unable to do anything on either side of the red tape. She explores her mother's online life to find out who she really is, and who might have taken her.

The film is to be released in January 20, 2023, and it's a [[ThematicSeries thematic sequel]] and SpiritualSuccessor to the Creator/JohnCho film, ''Film/{{Searching}}''. The latter's director, Creator/AneeshChaganty, produced this movie.

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''Missing'' is an upcoming U.S. drama American mystery thriller film written and directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick. The film stars Creator/StormReid, Creator/NiaLong, Creator/JoaquimDeAlmeida, Creator/KenLeung, Creator/AmyLandecker, and Creator/DanielHenney.

When her mother Grace (Creator/NiaLong) goes (Long) disappears while on vacation to in Colombia with her new boyfriend, she disappears. Her daughter, her daughter June (Creator/StormReid), (Reid) is left alone in the U.S. with the police unable to do anything on either side of the red tape. She explores June takes to using all the technology at her mother's online life availability to find out who her, but her digital sleuthing begins raising more than questions, and unraveling deep secrets about the mother she really is, and who might have taken her.

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The film will premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2023, and is scheduled to then be released in the United States on January 20, 2023.
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* IWillFindYou: The trailer makes it clear June will do whatever it takes to find her mother no matter how many obstacles come her way.

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''Missing'' is an upcoming U.S. drama film directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick. When Grace (Creator/NiaLong) goes on honeymoon to Colombia with her new husband, she disappears. Her daughter, June (Creator/StormReid), is left alone in the U.S. with the police unable to do anything on either side of the red tape. She explores her mother's online life to find out who she really is, and who might have taken her.

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''Missing'' is an upcoming U.S. drama film directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick. When Grace (Creator/NiaLong) goes on honeymoon vacation to Colombia with her new husband, boyfriend, she disappears. Her daughter, June (Creator/StormReid), is left alone in the U.S. with the police unable to do anything on either side of the red tape. She explores her mother's online life to find out who she really is, and who might have taken her.



* IWillFindYou: The trailer makes it clear June will do whatever it takes to find her mother no matter how many obstacles come her way.

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The film is to be released in January 2023, and it's a [[ThematicSeries thematic sequel]] and SpiritualSuccessor to the Creator/JohnCho film, ''Film/{{Searching}}''. The latter's director, Creator/AneeshChaganty, produced this movie.

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The film is to be released in January 20, 2023, and it's a [[ThematicSeries thematic sequel]] and SpiritualSuccessor to the Creator/JohnCho film, ''Film/{{Searching}}''. The latter's director, Creator/AneeshChaganty, produced this movie.
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''Missing'' is an upcoming U.S. drama film directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick. When Grace (Creator/NiaLong) goes on honeymoon to Colombia with her new husband, she disappears. Her daughter, June (Creator/StormReid), is left alone in the U.S. with the police unable to do anything on either side of the red tape. She explores her mother's online life to find out who she really is, and who might have taken her.

The film is to be released in January 2023, and it's a [[ThematicSeries thematic sequel]] and SpiritualSuccessor to the Creator/JohnCho film, ''Film/{{Searching}}''. The latter's director, Creator/AneeshChaganty, produced this movie.

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