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Release date: August 24, 2018 (limited; wide: Aug. 31)
Studio: Screen Gems (Sony)
Director: Aneesh Chaganty
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for thematic content, some drug and sexual references, and for language)
Screenwriters: Aneesh Chaganty, Sev Ohanian
Genre: Thriller

Starring: John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Michelle La

Plot Summary: After David Kim (John Cho)'s 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop. In a hyper-modern thriller told via the technology devices we use every day to communicate, David must trace his daughter's digital footprints before she disappears forever.

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[Chaplin]

Weird gimmick, not sure they can pull it off.

 

[Russ Smith]

Just watched it. I loved it. Lucy didn't like the computer angle to it, but loved the movie too.

Really good but it is weird, it's like a movie, and a commercial for Apple.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Just watched it. I loved it. Lucy didn't like the computer angle to it, but loved the movie too.

Really good but it is weird, it's like a movie, and a commercial for Apple.

saw it last summer. it was a tad predictable, but still really well done and entertaining.

 

[Russ Smith]

saw it last summer. it was a tad predictable, but still really well done and entertaining.

Yeah although some of the twists did surprise me there's some predictability too. The film maker is from San Jose so that's why it's set there. the Barbosa Lake thing is fictional but still interesting to me, in the movie they track her going on 152 West which goes back to Gilroy(the outlet mall). If you go 152 E, it eventually goes to I5 but not before you go past San Luis Reservoir which is one of my favorite fishing spots. I was wondering if they were going to use San Luis for Barbosa lake but they didn't, I'm not actually sure what lake that was, might have been Lexington Reservoir which is off Highway 17 to Santa Cruz, or maybe just some small lake in the foothills in San jose.

I thought Cho was good, I see him as mainly a comedian so it was a twist for me.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Yeah although some of the twists did surprise me there's some predictability too. The film maker is from San Jose so that's why it's set there. the Barbosa Lake thing is fictional but still interesting to me, in the movie they track her going on 152 West which goes back to Gilroy(the outlet mall). If you go 152 E, it eventually goes to I5 but not before you go past San Luis Reservoir which is one of my favorite fishing spots. I was wondering if they were going to use San Luis for Barbosa lake but they didn't, I'm not actually sure what lake that was, might have been Lexington Reservoir which is off Highway 17 to Santa Cruz, or maybe just some small lake in the foothills in San jose.

I thought Cho was good, I see him as mainly a comedian so it was a twist for me.

agreed on Cho. Solid leading man performance. He literally has to hold the screen in such an unconventional movie and he pulls it off with aplomb.

 

[AZCrazy]

He's come a long way since he introduced the term MILF to the American lexicon.

 

[Cheesebeef]

He's come a long way since he introduced the term MILF to the American lexicon.

had you never heard that term before American Pie?

 

[AZCrazy]

Never. Neither did the rest of the characters in the movie. That's the first widespread public mention of the term I can remember anywhere.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Never.

Wow... that's freaking crazy to me. That term has been in my language since I was probably 12 years old.

Neither did the rest of the characters in the movie.

Well... not sure imaginary characters in a movie means all that much.

That's the first widespread public mention of the term I can remember anywhere.

interesting.

Have you ever heard the term FUBAR?

 

[AzStevenCal]

Have you ever heard the term FUBAR?

I've been using FUBAR since the early 70's and I'm pretty sure I knew it well before but American Pie was also my introduction to MILF.

I'm not saying it wasn't around before this but using Google, the first reference I can find for it is from MotorBooty magazine in 1990. Anyone read that periodical?

 

[puckhead]

I've been using FUBAR since the early 70's and I'm pretty sure I knew it well before but American Pie was also my introduction to MILF.

I'm not saying it wasn't around before this but using Google, the first reference I can find for it is from MotorBooty magazine in 1990. Anyone read that periodical?

I only enjoy the articles.