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Without a Trace

  • 1983
  • PG
  • 2h
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
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Without a Trace (1983)
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Estranged New Yorker (Kate Nelligan) turns to the police after her son disappears.Estranged New Yorker (Kate Nelligan) turns to the police after her son disappears.Estranged New Yorker (Kate Nelligan) turns to the police after her son disappears.

  • Director
    • Stanley R. Jaffe
  • Writer
    • Beth Gutcheon
  • Stars
    • Kate Nelligan
    • Judd Hirsch
    • David Dukes
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    • Director
      • Stanley R. Jaffe
    • Writer
      • Beth Gutcheon
    • Stars
      • Kate Nelligan
      • Judd Hirsch
      • David Dukes
    • 45User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
    • 60Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro

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    Kate Nelligan
    Kate Nelligan
    • Susan Selky
    Judd Hirsch
    Judd Hirsch
    • Al Menetti
    David Dukes
    David Dukes
    • Graham Selky
    Stockard Channing
    Stockard Channing
    • Jocelyn Norris
    Jacqueline Brookes
    Jacqueline Brookes
    • Margaret Mayo
    Keith McDermott
    Keith McDermott
    • Philippe
    Kathleen Widdoes
    • Ms. Hauser
    Danny Corkill
    Danny Corkill
    • Alex Selky
    • (as Daniel Bryan Corkill)
    Cheryl Giannini
    • Pat Menetti
    David Simon
    • Eugene Menetti
    William Duell
    • Polygraph Operator
    Joan McMonagle
    • Vivienne Grant
    Louise Stubbs
    • Malvina Robbins
    Deborah Carlson
    • Naomi Blum
    Charles Brown
    • Sachs
    Sheila M. Coonan
    • Anna
    Peter Brash
    • Mr. Garrett
    L. Scott Caldwell
    L. Scott Caldwell
    • Janet Smith
    • Director
      • Stanley R. Jaffe
    • Writer
      • Beth Gutcheon
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    • Trivia
      The movie and its source book were based on the case of six-year-old Etan Kalil Patz. He disappeared in Manhattan on May 25, 1979, while walking 2 blocks to a school bus stop. He was the first missing child to be advertised on a milk carton. The case launched the missing children's movement, new legislation, and new methods for locating missing children.
    • Goofs
      The tea kettle that Susan Selky uses while waiting for Alex to come home is not a whistling type. There is no whistle attachment as she poured the water without removing anything from the spout. Whistling was only a sound effect.
    • Quotes

      Al Menetti: I feel like hammered shit.

    • Connections
      Featured in Sven Uslings Bio: Without a Trace (2023)

    User reviews45

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    Every parent's nightmare personified; noble effort by Nelligan

    WITHOUT A TRACE (1983) *** Kate Nelligan, Judd Hirsch, David Dukes, Stockard Channing, Daniel Bryan Corkill. Engrossing account of a small boy's disappearance and the horrors of his mother's unrelenting display of determinism in finding him dead or alive. Nelligan is exceptional running the gamut of emotions in this manipulative drama as is Hirsch as the dogged police detective equally disturbed by the crime. Based on Beth Gutcheon's book "Still Missing" (and adapted for the screen by her) and eerily resembling the NYC-based Etan Patz story.
    • george.schmidt
    • Apr 22, 2003
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    • Release date
      • February 4, 1983 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Still Missing
    • Filming locations
      • Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $9,632,062
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $1,609,448
      • Feb 6, 1983
    • Gross worldwide
      • $9,632,062
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    • Runtime
      2 hours
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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