Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Wizard-8 While I applaud the makers of "Disappearances" for managing to accomplish a lot with very little, in the end they put too much on their plates, so much so that the movie ends up as a disappointment. For what was a really low budget, the movie looks great, with plenty of period detail as well as some good cinematography. And writer/director Jay Craven also manages to get pretty good performances from his cast of actors. Unfortunately, Craven ultimately decided that his story would not be told simply and straight. Instead, he throws in a lot of mystifying material, mainly with the unexplained visions the teenage boy in the movie has throughout. But there are also some plot points (like characters disappearing) that are simply not explained. I understand that Craven was probably trying to make something different than expected, but ironically a more straightforward telling probably would have been more successful. I admit that the messy results do grab your interest at times while you're watching the whole package... but then again, so do some car accidents.

thud77 What a delight! In a market where we excuse bad scripts and flat characters for a dozen more explosions, dazzling special effects, and everything else twenty million dollars can buy, I love Disappearances for its charm, its clever script handled by a well-appointed cast, and its beautiful photography.The movie is thoroughly rural. Like the countryside where it was produced, it unfolds itself slowly but magnificently. Do not expect to find your heart in your throat for two hours, followed by a climactic and tidy resolution to the cosmos. Disappearances tells a story of father and son, and it is rightly more of a process than a particular event. In that regard, the plot development is stylistically more similar to eastern European cinema than it is to its American peers.With only a couple hitches (some characters are more prop than talent), Disappearances' strong symbiosis of script and talent is the film's greatest offering. The superb synergy of Farmer and McDermott with the others, the perfect casting of Sanderson to character, and a good performance by Kristofferson, have me pinching myself at times to remember these people aren't actually family. Disappearances ventures further, or more believably, into the psychology of its main characters than many American films dare go.That Jay Craven was ambitious with his budget shows at times during Disappearances, but it becomes more of a mark of honor than a detractor. This film is the antithesis to the contemporary action blockbuster. The film moves slowly at times, and the action is not always plausible, but the characters are for the most part enchanting. Besides, our suspension of disbelief in the cinema is an aesthetic choice above all, and I appreciate the way Disappearances, in its fusion of magic realism and frontier, challenges me to look at movies anew.

heckles Like the previous poster, I am from northern Vermont, and I was inclined to like this film. However, not since "Red Zone Cuba" have I seen such a confusing plot. The things the people sent to bootleg make no sense. Two of the gang paddle across the border send a second party across in a car. Uhm, why? Then they meet two others, and drive up at night in to the bad guy's hideout in a luxury Packard. --Wouldn't just two people in a flatbed truck make more sense? Then, parked outside the garage that holds the targeted hooch, the four fall asleep! When they waken in the morning and and start hauling the whiskey out, of course they're spotted and shot at, losing some of their precious cargo in the process. Then two of the smugglers put the whiskey in a boat and float it over the border. Again, why? I am told by someone whose great uncle really did smuggle in the area, all one needed was to drive a vehicle that could outrun than the U.S. Canada Border Patrol, which back then had a fraction of the resources it has now. And don't get me started on the last half hour, which made no sense whatsoever.The only good thing I can say about the film is that Kris Kristopherson has actually grown some charisma with the years.

imaeluson I hit the wrong button and clicked the yes button to the above reply as being helpful. I corrected it and checked that the comments by the poster were not helpful.So the one vote that says the post was helpful is not correct. On January 19th,2006,Disappearances was accepted into The Cleveland International Film Festival.The poster I am replying to is gleeful and drooling over the keyboard bashing all involved in this movie. This movie was a result of hard work and little pay on the actors part.All of the actors put effort into the parts that they played.They should not have to endure the comments that you stated.(boys'n'the hood comment)That is a racist remark.