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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="06dd8c02dduajq.jpg"> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">       <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><IMG SRC="0660b0b0.png" border=0 width="11" height="11" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="8dea8fa0.jpg" border=0 width="168" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Judy & Lutz Perschon</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Judy Lutz Perschon"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >back to</FONT>  <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><B>At The Movies With Lutz</B></U></A></div> <div> The Missing</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="775" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 152 WIDTH="763"><div> With this movie, Cate Blanchett became my current favourite female actress, and her performance in this movie may have blinded me to some aspects that I realized only after reading a few reviews.  Judy and I pondered what other females could have played the role.  Diane Lane, Madeleine Stowe perhaps, but Blanchette was perfect for it.   Tommy Lee Jones is always powerful when on screen but he is outdone in this one.   But this brings us to some of the things that the critics and users point out.   Parts of the plot are pretty unbelievable.     My favorite reviewer Roger Ebert did not like this movie.   But we liked it.  It kept us interested throughout and </div> <div> we identified with a mother's scorn, and it is fiction after all.   So despite some weaknesses in the plot, Ron Howard has directed a good western movie, and we would recommend it.   </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 51 WIDTH="763"><div> Lutz's Rating <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Judy's Rating <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 82 WIDTH="763"><div> Storyline From Yahoo:  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="arial" >Set in New Mexico in 1886, a father (Jones) returns home to his daughter Maggie (Blanchett) to try to make peace decades after abandoning her to go live with the Apaches, only to find that she has no forgiveness or affection to give him. When her daughter, Lily (Wood), is kidnapped by a band of outlaw Army deserters (who also murdered Maggie's companion Brake, played by Eckhart) led by a mysterious Apache shaman (Schweig), however, the estranged duo teams up to rescue Lily. </FONT></div> <div> <B>Ratings: Critics C+     Users B- </B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>