Searching 2018

     David Kim’s 16-year-old daughter goes missing and he contacts the police.  A detective is assigned to the case and she is working closely with Kim.  After 37 hours they don’t have a single lead about Margot and it becomes discouraging.  Kim starts checking on his daughter’s computer and he learns a lot of things about her that he didn’t know.  She stopped going to piano lessons six months ago and she’s been banking the $100 a week.  His search also leads to other things he doesn’t know about Margot.

     I think I would’ve liked this movie more if it was a detective story and not a computer and social media story.  It becomes tiresome always looking at the computer in the movie?  I can look at my own computer and I think that's more than plenty!!  The ending is a surprise but I wonder if it’s really believable? 3* (This movie is OK)   

102 min, Drama directed by Aneesh Chaganty with John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Sara Sohn, Alex Jayne Go, Megan Liu, Kya Dawn Lau, Michelle La, Dominic Hoffman, Connor McRaith, Coln Woodell.

Note:  Imdb 7.7 out of 10, Roger Ebert 3*, 92% critic 88% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic 71 out of 100 with 34 critics 7.9 out of 10 with 218 reviews, Rolling Stone 4* out of 5* Peter Travers, Amazon 4.3* out of 5* with 507 reviews.

Special Note:  Originally, the idea for this film was as an 8 minute short film.  The production company passed on this idea and suggested it be made into a movie instead.  Every TV/phone/computer screen was recreated for the German, Spanish, French, Russian and Portuguese versions of this film.  Shooting was done in just 13 days but 2 years were required for the prep, editing and animating.  Total worldwide gross was $75.5 million.