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.
Cast
Director:
David Kim
Detective Rosemary Vick
Pamela Nam Kin
Margot
Peter
Michael Porter
Mrs. Shahinian
Videos
June 19 2018
May 22 2018
Photos
Trivia
First time directing
This film is Aneesh Chaganty's first movie as director.
Reasonable similarities
Like the movie Unfriended (2014), this movie takes places on a muck computer screen.
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.
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