From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!sri-unix!NBarbieri.es@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: "Missing"
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1242
Posted: Tue May  3 09:10:12 1983
Received: Wed May 11 08:35:56 1983

"Missing" begins air time on HBO this month.  An uneasingly realistic
film about the father and the wife of the man who search through the
wrath of martial law when he mysteriously dissapeared during the coup of
1973 in Chile.  Based on a true story,  Jack Lemmon's role as the
Christian Scientist father becomes excessively mushy and overacted.
Sissy Spacek as the wife is well played, however, and is the saving
element in this award nominated thriller.  The story tends to draw out
and we are distracted by the details of the intertwining of historical
characters from the main dilemma, what happened to the
journalist/husband/son?  It gets a 6.5 (ten is tops.