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Estranged New Yorker (Kate Nelligan) turns to the police after her son disappears.Estranged New Yorker (Kate Nelligan) turns to the police after her son disappears.Estranged New Yorker (Kate Nelligan) turns to the police after her son disappears.
Danny Corkill
- Alex Selky
- (as Daniel Bryan Corkill)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe movie and its source book were based on the case of six-year-old Etan Kalil Patz. He disappeared in Manhattan on May 25, 1979, while walking 2 blocks to a school bus stop. He was the first missing child to be advertised on a milk carton. The case launched the missing children's movement, new legislation, and new methods for locating missing children.
- GoofsThe tea kettle that Susan Selky uses while waiting for Alex to come home is not a whistling type. There is no whistle attachment as she poured the water without removing anything from the spout. Whistling was only a sound effect.
- Quotes
Al Menetti: I feel like hammered shit.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Sven Uslings Bio: Without a Trace (2023)
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.."If you felt what I have you'd be screaming right now!"....
One of the best lines as Kate Nelligan portrays Susan Selky, a professor in NYC whose son has been abducted, and possibly murdered.
Nelligan is outstanding as a frustrated and angry mother whose son one day simply disappears after she sees him off on the school bus.
There are a few surprises here. Judd Hirsch is very good as Detective Minetti, although the story does go off tangent a bit with his family life. David Dukes portrays her estranged husband, who is initially suspected of abducting his own son.
Stockard Channing also has a small part as Selky's friend. When she attempts to talk Susan into the platitude : ..."picking up your bootstraps and move on"..., Susan (Nelligan) becomes enraged, telling her she cannot have a clue as to how this feels. A very powerful scene, and relevant to anyone who has experienced a horrible loss, and doesn't know how to cope.
Overall this is a good film with a few tangents, but well worth a view. 8/10.
Nelligan is outstanding as a frustrated and angry mother whose son one day simply disappears after she sees him off on the school bus.
There are a few surprises here. Judd Hirsch is very good as Detective Minetti, although the story does go off tangent a bit with his family life. David Dukes portrays her estranged husband, who is initially suspected of abducting his own son.
Stockard Channing also has a small part as Selky's friend. When she attempts to talk Susan into the platitude : ..."picking up your bootstraps and move on"..., Susan (Nelligan) becomes enraged, telling her she cannot have a clue as to how this feels. A very powerful scene, and relevant to anyone who has experienced a horrible loss, and doesn't know how to cope.
Overall this is a good film with a few tangents, but well worth a view. 8/10.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $9,632,062
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,609,448
- Feb 6, 1983
- Gross worldwide
- $9,632,062
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