

Title: Searching
Original Title: Searching
Year: 2018
Info
- Country: USA Russia
- Language: English
- Length: 102 Minutes (1 hour 42 min)
- Budget: $880,000
- Genre: Thriller Mystery Drama
- Studios: Screen Gems Stage 6 Films
- Distributor: Sony Pictures
- Age rating: 12 (Suitable for 12 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: August 31 2018
- United States: August 31 2018
Plot
After Margot (Michele La), goes missing, a local investigation is opened and Rosemary Vick (Debra Messing) is the detective assigned to the case. However, thirty-seven hours later and without a single lead, David (John Cho), Margot's father, decides to search where no one has looked yet, there were all secrets are kept nowadays: Margot's laptop. In this modern thriller completely told via technological devices we use every day to communicate, therefore shot from the point-of-view of smartphones and computer screens, David must trace his daughter's digital footprints before her disappearance.
'Searching' is the big-screen debut of writer and director Aneesh Chaganty, who had only directed short films until now.
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Trivia
The age of the screens
The movie releases almost at the same time as 'Unfriended: Dark Web' and 'Profile', who are also told through computer screens. The first one is about a group of friends facing an online threat and the second one about a journalist who infiltrates propaganda web pages from the Islamic State.
Reasonable similarities
Like the movie Unfriended (2014), this movie takes places on a muck computer screen.
First time directing
This film is Aneesh Chaganty's first movie as director.
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