MISSING (2023) Ending Explained

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In Missing, after her mother goes missing, a young woman tries to find her from home, using the many tools available to her online. We're breaking down the story's many twists and turns, the important relationship at its core, and explaining the shocking ending.

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[CappyMorgan]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate that Javi is the MVP and had no wild plot twists or fantastical connection to everything? That he was just a genuinely good dude trying to help?

Also a genuinely good guy who doesn't die and instead gets a happy ending???

[hicky]

Javier seems like a far better private investigator than taco delivery man

[lilliebobson]

I love the slow reveal of the woman on the trip not being her mom. Like wtf. It was oddly scary. Like what I saw was not real.

[juliosvideos]

javi was my favorite character. he chose to help june even though it wasn’t his problem, and even after june disrespected him, he still helped her. literal GOAT!!!!

[itschoechoe]

Does anyone else feel terrible for Heather? /: Poor lady got caught in the fire just to protect her client/turned best friend's daughter and to keep them safe.

[ghosts_are_real]

the voicemail part killed me. after my nanna passed all i could do was listen to the voicemails she left me. some of them she’s irritated, some are just silence because she was bad with phones, and some are just her asking me to wake up or if i want to go get icecream. it breaks my heart

[crimsoneclipse]

I really thought Javi was gonna be the villain lol. Turns out he's just a really good and upstanding guy.

[aroha]

I thought the birth-dad's original plan was to stage his ex-wife's disappearance overseas (using the double), kill her, and then show back up in his daughter's life as a hero (to her), maybe torturing his ex for a few days, or using her in case he needed any questions answered. I figure that's why he didn't go pick his daughter up immediately, even though he knew where she was, he was hoping she'd believe the story he'd created about her mother getting engaged and abandoning her. I think he only switched plans when his daughter started to really unravel the deception around the woman his partner in crime was using as the decoy. When he saw his own daughter was unravelling the plot, that's when he went and grabbed her, and from then his plan was improvised.

[nyakundikenani]

simple the dad had planned on murdering the mom and hiding her as the story of the kidnapping in south america would lead people to think she probably got lost there throwing any suspicion away, I presume he was planning on returning into the daughters life at that point when she would be alone, vulnerable mourning her dead lost mom, however the plan got ruined when junebug went all detective mode..

[MielleRose]

I mean… sometimes it’s nice to have a happy ending. I usually like more realistic bittersweet endings but this one wasn’t bad. Lots of silly errors but overall sweet. I like seeing mother-daughter movies that end happily :)

[sucoh]

First we got Searching.
Now we get Missing.
Next we’ll get Seeking

[cdunlap]

Javi, the man. And through all those twists and turns, the surprise ending, it all comes down to a happy ending for them. Bravo

[IamproudAtin]

Am I the only one that thinks this movie is the most creative for putting domestic violence awareness in a very artistic and scary way but also the whole story is literally "plot twist, after plot twist after plot tiwst after plot twist." And June isn't a cliché character, she is very smart and knows how to use all these internet stuff. Very good critical thinker.

[SirAsdf]

It will never not be weird to see this type of movie use a whole bunch of real-life apps and services, and it does not feel like product placement.

Like sure, they occasionally make up a service (presumably because the real life equivalents didn't want to show the audience at home how easy it would be for your account with them to be hacked) but that's fine.

Like no one app or site magically has all the answers, she has to work within the limitations that each has in the real world.

Provides a nice layer of realism to the whole thing

[christophernguyen]

Javi is a really nice guy I’m glad that he got back with his son.
Throughout the movie I really thought that the Grace did something really bad which is why she kept her past hidden. I thought she killed the dad or something as it turns out the dad is responsible for everything.

[RenegadeLK]

Can't believe the five editors of Searching and Run ended up directing Missing. It went full circle, and pretty cool.

[pvoallana]

I love this, it shows how technology can be used for almost anything and how it can LITERALLY save peoples lives. I should show my grandma this movie cuz she feels like technology is useless smh 💀

[SabrinaRina]

It was funny, my mom hardly goes to movies, but she shared that her and a friend saw this and she was so negative about the twist. She was pissed that the movie spends time insisting that the dad is dead only to make him the one behind it and suggesting the writers needed to go get lessons, that it's not a twist to tell people it can't be something/someone so that they never think it's that, but then go "aha, but it is that". Rarely have I heard her so mad at something so inconsequential as a movie plot, but she was.

[ZombicidalMadMom]

Regarding why Daddy went to all the needless trouble getting June when he does and snatching his wife; I'd just chalk it up to wanting revenge on his wife.
I just watched a true crime documentary about a man who killed his twin daughters, then himself, because his wife was leaving him; he was abusive too. So he punished his soon-to-be ex by killing their daughters and killed himself to escape punishment, the coward.

[YETISpaghetto]

man you got me addicted to these vids this is like all ive been watching for a couple days now