Misjudged, compromised Hollywood remake.
The Vanishing (1993)
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Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 13
Rotten:17
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: An American remake of the Dutch psychological thriller about a young woman who disappears mysteriously one day while vacationing with her boyfriend. After three years of searching obsessively for her, the boyfriend is contacted by the... An American remake of the Dutch psychological thriller about a young woman who disappears mysteriously one day while vacationing with her boyfriend. After three years of searching obsessively for her, the boyfriend is contacted by the woman's abductor, a happily married professor whose deceptively normal facade masks the soul of a psychotic criminal. The man tests the depths of the boyfriend's obsession by drawing him into a bizarre and sinister game in which the young man must risk his own well-being in order to solve the mystery of his lover's disappearance. [More]
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Nancy Travis
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Nancy Travis
Director: George Sluizer
Director: George Sluizer
Screenwriter: Todd Graff
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Producer: Larry Brezner, Paul Schiff
Reviews for The Vanishing
...a thoroughly involving thriller that boasts a number of genuinely tense sequences...
Sutherland is the key to the proceedings and his intense, narrow-minded, obsessive search for his ex-girlfriend is what kept me going most of the way.
Often stands shoulder-to-shoulder with its forerunner--or is at the very least too provocative in its departures to dismiss out of hand
Sluizer's Americanized remake of his own film is more commercial, but, to me, also more appealing.
The worst thing about this version of The Vanishing is the same thing that was best in the original -- the ending.
It doesn't defy rationality, but rather turns rationality itself into an instrument of horror.
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