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Information
- Year
- 1993
- Runtime
- 109 min.
- Director
- George Sluizer
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Horror
- Rating *
- 6.3
- Votes *
- 17,418
- Checks
- 1,114
- Favs
- 31
- Dislikes
- 41
- Favs/checks
- 2.8% (1:36)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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Squin
The scariest part of this is when Rita at the diner pours Jeff a glass of milk from an open pitcher that's just been sitting there on the counter for god knows how long. 4 months ago -
Siskoid
Apparently, the original Dutch version of The Vanishing - 1988's Spoorloos - is the preferable viewing experience, but I haven't seen it. That's context for the review. The American Vanishing has a couple things going for it, to be sure, like showing the psychotic kidnapper working up the courage to commit a heinous crime before we're ever introduced to the nominal hero, and then pulling a bait and switch and revealing the hero is someone else entirely. Jeff Bridges is always interesting, though what a weird accent he's putting on. Keifer Sutherland as a frustrated and obsessive man looking for his missing girlfriend, however, is the least engaging person in the cast. He's a underwritten jerk whose motivations the film almost manages to contrast with the kidnapper's, but by the third act, we're just in bog-standard thriller mode and the happy-ish ending does away with any thematic resonance in favor of a clunky joke. I guess it's probably true what they say. 7 years 1 month ago -
