I skipped the Super Bowl, as I didn't care about either team and went to the movies instead.
Missing (2023) stars Storm Reid (Euphoria, A Wrinkle in Time) as June, a young woman trying to find her mother who appears to have been abducted.
June, raised by a single mother, resents the fact that her mother seems overly controlling and would rather spend time on social media than have a mother/daughter relationship. Her mother and her new boyfriend go to Columbia for several days and when she doesn't return as scheduled June begins a frantic search for her, when authorities in the States and Columbia seem unwilling or unable to help her. Using her social media skills and with the assistance of a Columbian man, she begins to fear that this may have been part of a scam and abduction.
Not the first film to do this, much of the screen is filled with the various windows June has open on her computer and phone, as her investigation continues. There is also a twist at the end that I didn't see coming, but maybe a smarter viewer would have picked up on it earlier.
June starts out as rather unlikable at the start, but we see her grow and adapt as the various plots come together and the mystery begins to unravel. A decent mystery that had me interested throughout, with a very tense ending.
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