‘Missing’ ending explained: does June track down her mother?

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*Warning: spoilers ahead*The 2023 mystery thriller Missing is riding high in the Netflix charts, but does June manage to find her mother by the end of the film?

Read on for all the info.The film is an example of the ‘screenlife’ subgenre, in which the events of the story are shown entirely on computer, smartphone or tablet screens.

It is set in the universe of the previous film Searching in 2018, although it acts as a standalone story.Directed by Will Merrick and Nick Johnson, it stars Storm Reid (A Wrinkle In Time, Euphoria) as June, a teenager who attempts to find her mother after she disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend.As well as being set in the Searching universe, it also acts as a spiritual sequel to the 2020 film Run, which was directed by Searching’s Aneesh Chaganty.

The fates of the characters established in Run are confirmed by the events of Missing.The film was originally released in January 2023 after premiering at Sundance and grossed $48million (£39million) at the global box office from a budget of $7million (£5.6million).When June’s mother Grace does not arrive back from her Colombian holiday on time, she decides to investigate her disappearance herself.She hires Javier, a gig worker in Colombia, and sets about hacking into Grace’s new boyfriend Kevin’s online accounts, discovering that he has multiple aliases and a criminal record for scamming women out of their money.With Javier’s help, she tracks Grace and Kevin’s movements in Colombia.