The Missing Person (2009)


Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing the missing person back to his wife in New York City.

The Missing Person (2009)

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Released Year: 2009
Runtime: 95 minutes
Directors: Noah Buschel
Writers: Noah Buschel

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Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing the missing person back to his wife in New York City.

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Reviews


75
New York Post - Kyle Smith
Rising star Michael Shannon makes a riveting shamus hired to chase a runaway husband in the quiet but resonant little noir The Missing Person.
75
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum
Overly fussy and self-conscious in its noir details. But in The Missing Person, Buschel makes striking use of the Mike Hammer/Philip Marlowe tradition.
70
The New York Times - Jeannette Catsoulis
Sluggish, stylized and frequently washed in a bilious green tint, The Missing Person is yet oddly irresistible.
60
Time Out - Nicolas Rapold
It’s Shannon’s slow, steady world of hurt that makes the film watchable.
60
Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas
Despite honoring noir genre conventions, Buschel also draws upon his fertile imagination in dialogue and in storytelling that allows his film gradually to accrue meaning.

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