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The Vanishing (1993)
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Reviews Counted: 31
Fresh: 13
Rotten:18
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: An American remake of the Dutch psychological thriller about a young woman who disappears mysteriously one day while vacationing with her boyfriend. After three years of searching obsessively for... An American remake of the Dutch psychological thriller about a young woman who disappears mysteriously one day while vacationing with her boyfriend. After three years of searching obsessively for her, the boyfriend is contacted by the woman's abductor, a happily married professor whose deceptively normal facade masks the soul of a psychotic criminal. The man tests the depths of the boyfriend's obsession by drawing him into a bizarre and sinister game in which the young man must risk his own well-being in order to solve the mystery of his lover's disappearance. [More]
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Nancy Travis
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Nancy Travis
Director: George Sluizer
Director: George Sluizer
Screenwriter: Todd Graff
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Producer: Larry Brezner, Paul Schiff
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Reviews for The Vanishing
Sluizer's Hollywood remake of his own brilliant Spooloos is a lobotomised version of its chillier, more cerebral precursor.
...a thoroughly involving thriller that boasts a number of genuinely tense sequences...
Sutherland is the key to the proceedings and his intense, narrow-minded, obsessive search for his ex-girlfriend is what kept me going most of the way.
Often stands shoulder-to-shoulder with its forerunner--or is at the very least too provocative in its departures to dismiss out of hand
Sluizer's Americanized remake of his own film is more commercial, but, to me, also more appealing.
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