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.
Not for laughs, warmth or comfort.
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Charles SocaridesYoung Doorman (John Stockton)
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GoodWatch score 58January 16, 2009 · 1 h 35 min · Strong Language, Drug Use
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In the United States, The Missing Person streams on Strand Releasing, and it is free with ads on Plex, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fandango at Home Free, Fawesome, and Tubi TV. You can rent or buy it from Fandango At Home. It also streams in 6 other countries.
Opinions are mixed, with a GoodWatch score of 59 (IMDb 6, Rotten Tomatoes 67%, and Metacritic 57).
Not much for a comedy: the title analysis gives its humor 1 of 4.
Probably not: the title analysis rates it 8 of 10 for melancholy and 7 for bleakness, against 2 for hopefulness.
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