The Missing (2003 film)
The Missing is a 2003 American Western film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett.Set in 1885 New Mexico Territory, the film is notable for the authentic use of the Apache language by various actors, some of whom spent long hours studying it.In late 19th-century New Mexico, Samuel Jones arrives at the house of his daughter Magdalena "Maggie" Gilkeson, hoping to reconcile with her after abandoning her and her mother decades before.Renegade Apache Pesh-Chidin, alias El Brujo and followers raid the area, killing settlers and taking women and girls to sell into sex slavery in Mexico.The lieutenant in charge evades helping them, as he must lead his unit to carry out the forced relocation of captive Native Americans.Jones and Maggie hold off the attackers, but El Brujo stealthily climbs up the side of the cliff and injures Honesco, while his followers use fire arrows to spread panic in the camp.[4] Actors such as Tommy Lee Jones, Jay Tavare, Simon R. Baker, and others had learned to speak some dialogue in the Chiricahua dialect of Apache; this was used throughout the film.