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...Missing," Lemmon plays ED Horman, a conservative American businessman whose son, residing in Chile, disappears a few days after the 1973 military coup that brought General Pinochet to power. Horman travels to Chile and, along with his daughter-in-law, Beth (Sissy Spacek), tries to find out what happened...
...Horman has an unshakable faith in the American way and whole-heartedly disapproves of his son's and his daughter-in-law's left-wing politics and counterculture ways. However, little by little he realizes that the American authorities are giving him the run-around, and eventually discovers that the American government is almost wholly responsible for his son's disappearance and execution. Along the way to these discoveries, Horman begins to sympathize with Beth and his missing son, and comes to the conclusion that they weren't pinko flower children...
...task force is rewriting the initiative, and the watered-down version is expected to avoid any mention of using taxpayer money. Instead, local employers will simply be asked to consider hiring minorities when recruiting for positions that can't be filled locally. Says J. Steven Horman, president of the Dubuque Chamber of Commerce: "I'm convinced that not one single job will be lost...
...THIS idea that our own government may have authorized the death of Charlie Horman that gnaws at us as an American audience, that we cannot believe. The indiscriminate torturing and killing of hundreds of Chilean civilians in the movie repulses us, but somehow we remain outside, protected from the terror and pain But the killing of an American truly outrages us. What happened to that invisible forcefield of protection that is supposed to surround an American everywhere he goes? Lemmon wonders. And we wonder, too Yet it is only through the death of the young American that our repulsion grows...
...WHILE COSTA GAVRAS condemns the U.S. government for its role in the Chilean revolution he refuses to place the blame solely on the shoulders of the government officials Toward the end of the movie, when it becomes increasingly apparent that Charlie Horman has been shot, Gavras gives these slippery bureaucratic types we have grown to hate their say The U S ambassador to Chile explains to Lemmon that whatever the American government has done in Chile "has been done to protect the American way of life at home" Another official chimes in "and a very good way of life...