The Missing

The Missing (2003) is Ron Howard's western thriller, ready to watch online on iFILM. New Mexico, 1886. Maggie Gilkeson runs a hardscrabble ranch and raises two daughters with no man around and little patience for one.

Then a band of Apache renegades led by the brujo Chidin seizes her older girl, Lily, and drives a string of captives toward the Mexican border to be sold. Maggie has no one to turn to — except the father who walked out years ago to live among the Apache and now shows up uninvited at her door. She despises Samuel. She rides with him anyway, because he alone can cut a trail across this desert.

Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones carry the film as a daughter and father forced to rebuild trust mid-pursuit, with Evan Rachel Wood, Val Kilmer and Eric Schweig rounding out the cast. Howard turns the chase into a hard study of vengeance and forgiveness, the landscape every bit as merciless as the man they're hunting. Stream The Missing (2003) online on iFILM.