Judd Hirsch, Kate Nelligan, David Dukes, Stockard Channing, Jacqueline Brookes ...( see more  see more... ) , William H. Macy , Terry O'Quinn , Bill Smitrovich

This is every parent's nightmare: Your kid goes off to school one morning--and never comes back. Based on the case of young New Yorker Etan Patz, who disappeared in the early 1980s, this film casts Ka...( read more  read more... )te Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who make her and her husband suspects, even as she hounds them to find her child and drives away her husband (David Dukes) and friends (including Stockard Channing) with her intensity and single-mindedness. The first film by producer Stanley Jaffe, all of the goodwill he earns two-thirds of the way through is squandered on a Hollywood ending that doesn't square with the real case: Etan Patz was never found. --Marshall Fine

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Directed by: Stanley R. Jaffe

Release Date: February 4, 1983

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  • January 13, 2008
    Intriguing.
  • November 20, 2008
    Gripping movie totally ruined by an unrealistic "happy" ending....
  • September 17, 2008
    Love this......all through the movie felt so sad for the little boy who was kidnapped......this is one of the ultimate tear jerkers, and one of my favorties
  • January 24, 2008
    OH MY GOD GOOD MOVIE
  • November 29, 2007
    This is my ALL time favorite movie!!!!
  • August 28, 2007
    wow i remember this one- very scary, very sad - about the critical hours after a child goes missing
  • August 27, 2007
    A wonderful back in the day tear-jerker!
  • August 17, 2007
    Saw this eons ago. As I recall, it was pretty good. Not exactly uplifting, though.
  • July 27, 2007
    A good movie. Perhaps a bit misleading to those who have lost a loved one. Life is not always like the movies.
  • June 12, 2007
    A well scripted and well acted drama film about a woman who's son is kidnapped and with the help of a detective trying to find her son. Judd Hirsch and Kate Nelligan give outstanding performances in this 1983 classic film.

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