The Missing Person
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58% Critic Match

The Missing Person

John Rosow is a private investigator. And an alcoholic. He just got the case of his life.

5.8 / 10 2009 1h 35mNR English
ComedyDramaMysteryThriller

Storyline

John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone he's never met to follow a middle-aged male subject on the soon-departing California Zephyr train to Los Angeles.

Cast & Crew

Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

John Rosow

Lead
Amy Ryan

Amy Ryan

Miss Charley

Frank Wood

Frank Wood

Harold Fullmer

Linda Emond

Linda Emond

Megan Fullmer

John Ventimiglia

John Ventimiglia

Hero Furillo

Margaret Colin

Margaret Colin

Lana Cobb

Paul Sparks

Paul Sparks

Gus Papitos

Yul Vazquez

Yul Vazquez

Don Edgar

What People Are Saying

3.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Noah Buschel's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. The Missing Person is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker