MISSING from POLYGRAM PICTURES. Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek both received Oscar nominations for acting performances and the film won for Best Adapted Screenplay. It's based on the 1978 novel "The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice" by Thomas Hauser.
Charles is a writer who knows too much information about the United States attempted "Coup" of Chile in 1973. He disappears and his father Ed (Lemmon) travels to Chile to search for him. Charles' wife Beth (Spacek) is already in the country searching for him. He turns up murdered and that becomes a mystery unresolved.
The question is, "Did the United States Embassy and/or Consulate order the execution of Charles by the Chilean military?"
This is based on a true story and the family of Charles Horman never gets a complete answer on who killed him. His dead body is returned home in a wooden crate to the U.S. That body is too decomposed for an autopsy. The murder of Charles is classified as "secret" forever by the U.S. Government. (It makes you angry.). Check it out if can.
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