2004 Movies : Thriller

With Cate Blanchett • Tommy Lee Jones • Evan Rachel Wood • Val Kilmer • Aaron Eckhart • Jay Tavare • Jenna Boyd • Eric Schweig

"The Missing" is the story of Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett), a young woman raising her two daughters in an isolated and lawless wilderness. When her oldest daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) is kidnapped by a psychopathic killer with mystical powers (Eric Schweig), Maggie is forced to re-unite with her long estranged father (Tommy Lee Jones) to rescue her. The killer and his brutal cult of desperados have kidnapped several other teenage girls, leaving a trail of death and horror across the desolate landscape of the American Southwest. Maggie and her father are in a race against time to catch up with the renegades and save her daughter, before they cross the Mexican border and disappear forever.

With Charlize Theron • Bruce Dern • Patty Jenkins • Christina Ricci • Scott Wilson • Marc Macaulay • Lee Tergesen • Clark Peterson • Donald Kushner • Pruitt Taylor Vince • Annie Corley • Marco St. John • Rus Blackwell • Tim Ware • Kaitlin Riley • Brad Wyman • Mark Damon • Sammy Lee

The story is based on the life of serial killer Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron), who was executed Oct. 9, 2002, after murdering at least six Florida men while working as a prostitute. In her 1992 trial, Wuornos pleaded innocent, saying she acted in self-defense to prevent being raped, a statement she later recanted. The film centers on Wuornos' life before the murders and her romantic relationship with Selby (Christina Ricci), a woman she dated while still turning tricks and killing men.

With Sean Harris • Colin Firth • Mena Suvari • Tommy Flanagan • Naomie Harris • Kirk D'Amico • Steve Christian • Garry Tubbs • Jonathan Cavendish • Nicky Kentish Barnes • Marion Pilowsky • David M. Thompson • Don A. Starr • Dan J.B. Taylor • James Mitchell • Lizzie Francke • Richard Smith

A gripping psychological thriller with Hitchcockian twists. Waking from a coma after a car crash, Ben (Colin Firth) learns that his wife, Elisa (Naomie Harris), was killed in the accident, and his world collapses. He attempts to rebuild his life by getting a new job and a new apartment, but his mind starts playing tricks on him. He begins seeing his dead wife everywhere. His attractive neighbor, Charlotte (Mena Suvari), takes him to see a psychic (Brenda Fricker), who tells him that she senses his wife might still be alive. Meanwhile, someone is moving things around in his apartment and destroying cherished possessions. Then the police pay him a visit: he's being investigated for murder.

With Ashton Kutcher • Anthony Rhulen • Ethan Suplee • Eric Bress • Amy Smart • J.C. Spink • Elden Henson • Eric Stoltz • Melora Walters • John Patrick Amedori • Cameron Crigger • J. Mackye Gruber • Chris Bender • A.J. Dix

Struggling with the psychological effects of his repressed childhood memories, a young man (Ashton Kutcher) devises a technique of traveling back in time to inhabit his childhood body. As he attempts to mend the broken lives of those closest to him, he finds that every trip into the past brings chaotic results into the present, leading him to travel back again and again and causing irreparable damage.

With Morgan Freeman • Owen Wilson • Bebe Neuwirth • Charlie Sheen • Kris Kristofferson • Gary Sinise • George Armitage • Scott Caan • Harry Dean Stanton • Willie Nelson • Sara Foster

Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson), a charming drifter, meets a beautiful criminal, Nancy Hayes, in a Michigan resort town. The powerful and rich local Mr. Majestyk wants Jack gone and Nancy all to himself.