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Released
2003 · FILM

The Missing

A determined rancher‑mother races against time to rescue her kidnapped teen daughter from hostile Apache raiders, forcing her to team up with her estranged father. Together they must overcome their bitter past and outwit ruthless enemies before the girl is taken across the border forever.

How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost?

Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
135 min
AdventureDramaThriller

Synopsis

When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 39

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sheng Chang ChenShot by Pen Jung LiaoScored by James Horner

Box Office

2003 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$38.4M

Budget$60.0M
Worldwide gross$38.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $27.0M 70% of worldwide · International: $11.4M (30%)

Opening weekend: $4.4M 16% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.4M16% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,756 theaters

Also known as

  • Les Disparuesfr

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