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Searching
Film · 2018
After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.
The sides of Searching
- A father searching for his missing daughter
- A story told on computer screens
- Secrets in a teenager's laptop
Searching is good for you if…
- you like following clues in emails, chats and live streams.
- you like a father racing against the hours since his daughter vanished.
- you like a last act that changes everything you thought.
Searching is bad for you if…
- you can't watch a parent searching for a missing child.
- you want wide cinematic images, not a film told on laptop screens.
About: grief · parenthood · secrets
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