The Missing Person

The Missing Person

2009 · 95 min · EN · 5.9 (41 votes)
Dir. Noah Buschel · Starring Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan, Frank Wood, Linda Emond, John Ventimiglia, Margaret Colin

“John Rosow is a private investigator. And an alcoholic. He just got the case of his life.”

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John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone he's never met to follow a middle-aged male subject on the soon-departing California Zephyr train to Los Angeles.

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A brooding, rain-slicked neo-noir that captures the existential dread of a post-9/11 world. It's a slow-burn character study of a broken man navigating a city that never sleeps, haunted by loss and the search for truth.

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