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Disappearance

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by Scott Weinberg

"The cable flick equivalent of radio static."

I challenge even the most verbose movie critics in the world to come up with more than three paragraphs about what goes on in "Disappearance".

As you could probably tell already, I’m having a tough time devising anything interesting to say about the film…and I just watched it like ten minutes ago! Imagine the world’s most boring made-for-TV "thriller" about a family lost in the desert. Now take that movie and run it through a washing machine about 112 times. That’s Disappearance.

That Harry Hamlin and Susan Dey have their names above the credits should have been red flag enough, but devotion to my craft inspired me to watch the whole yawning maw of a film.

Mommy, Daddy, teenage son, teenage son’s friend, and precocious preteen daughter end up in a windy Nevada ghost town. They find some creepy videotapes, they get their truck stolen, they sleep in a room.

What I’ve described above takes place over a real-time period of about 48 minutes. Late in the game we’re offered limp allusions to Area 51, thereby explaining the mystery of the stolen truck.

Hamlin (ever wooden) and Dey (still perkily cute) sleepwalk through the cable-flick proceedings, almost visibly thrilled when the end credits pop up.

The last time I saw a movie this boring it turned out I was watching the oven.

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originally posted: 04/30/04 10:23:15

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10/27/08 Doug What?!? 1 stars

5/05/08 Sue M Suspenseful and creepy. Would really like to know what was lurking though and why. 4 stars

7/23/07 Samantha Watching it on tv now, the beginning is kind of freaky but further on it gets boring. 1 stars

7/22/07 Linus just saw it on TV - unbelievable 1 stars

12/13/06 Maurice EVO What the f%#* just happend? 2 stars

11/16/06 john smith Excellent masterpiece 5 stars

10/14/06 maul started out scary but what the f#$% was up with that ending. thumbs down 3 stars

8/30/06 Nick Good at first then sucked badly 1 stars

8/30/06 Amiee i thought the movie was okay , but i didnt understand the ending at ALL ! 3 stars

5/06/06 ka I liked the movie, but in the end i was confused as to what happened in the end... 3 stars

5/06/06 Dana Evans This movie may not have been a master piece but it kept u thinking. Can u do better? 4 stars

4/18/06 Raffi I didn't understand this at all 3 stars

4/17/06 Joel Tried to keep you on the edge but the they tried too hard and blew it! 1 stars

4/07/06 Elpedia Howard One of the worst ever 1 stars

10/27/05 Keith The real horror in this film is just knowing that someone else might accidentally watch it. 1 stars

10/27/05 JFo Initially scary, but halfway trough, totally lost its edge. Where's the explanation? 2 stars

8/11/05 Michael I just wanna know where that Ghost Town is? 3 stars

3/27/05 Eric Samson Nonsense! (sucks off plenty cerebral cells) Made by aliens from area 51? 1 stars

3/03/05 Janice Tehie Atrocious movie 1 stars

11/03/04 Jamar Joyner I with everyone else what happened to the ending the plot amount to nothing.Just confusion 1 stars

9/19/04 Valerie MacCabe No point, no plot, and no ending. Biggest pile of crap to ever hit the movie screen. 1 stars

8/26/04 Angelica Not as scary as others.....but still captivating 4 stars

8/26/04 Andrea Quiros The movie was average but i was waiting fot the thrilling ending all along and it never ha 2 stars

8/13/04 Mark Louis Baumgart A claustophobic & paranoid mystery, thoroughly wrecked by a unexplained ending. 3 stars

7/03/04 Bobby Smith HORRIBLE! what was that movie even about? The end made NO SENSE!!! 1 stars

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USA 21-Apr-2002 (PG-13) UK N/A Australia 02-Oct-2002

Directed by Walter Klenhard Written by Walter Klenhard Cast Harry Hamlin Susan Dey Jeremy Lelliott Basia A'Hern Jamie Croft Jeremy Kewley

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