The Missing

If ever a film needed the brutally sardonic touch of Sergio Leone, or even a lesser Spaghetti Western director, it's this feminist variation on THE SEARCHERS (1956). New Mexico, 1885: Rancher Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett) supplements her income doctoring people to whom no doctor is available. A staunch Christian, she's raising two daughters alone — petulant teenager Lilly (Evan Rachel Wood), who yearns for the finer things, and 12-year-old Dot (Jenna Boyd), a smaller version of her mother — and isn't interested in remarrying, though there's a warm spot in her heart and bed for ranch hand Brake Baldwin (Aaron Eckhart). Two fateful events shatter Maggie's ...