David Kim’s daughter is missing. He can’t find out where she is until he finds out who she is.
| Cast |
John Cho, Sara Sohn, ALex Jayne Go, Megan Liu, Kya Dawn Lau, Michelle La, Joseph Lee |
| Director |
Aneesh Chaganty |
| Screenplay | Aneesh Chaganty, Sev Ohanian |
| Music | Torin Borrowdale |
| Cinematography | Juan Sebastian Baron, Nicholas D. Johnson, Will Merrick |
| Editing | Nicholas D. Johnson, Will Merrick |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2018 |
| Produced by | Bazelevs Entertainment, Bazelevs Production |
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| Genre | Thriller |
| Language | Infrequent, mild impact swearing. |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Fairly frequent, mild to moderate impact implied violence, including psychological violence. |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None (sic) |
| Comments | |
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| PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned | Rated PG-13 for thematic content, some drug and sexual references, and for language |
| Runtime | 102 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
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| Suggested age limit 13 + |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Die Burger David Engelbrecht  Spanning loop hoog terwyl pa kind soek. | 10 |  |
| 24.com Gabi Zietsman If any filmmaker with a tight budget wants to dabble in this digital style of storytelling, Searching would be the best film to use as a case study and how to interweave the digital sphere with the plot. | 15 |  |
| ScreenIt Jim Judy Overall, I liked the pic quite a bit, yet hope it doesn’t end up as one of the first of many of what could be a heavily copied and imitated cinematic storytelling form. | 14 | |
| Metacritic.com 34 critics | 14 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 184 critics | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Searching’s timely premise and original execution are further bolstered by well-rounded characters brought to life by a talented cast. | 19 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 14 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Jeffrey M. Anderson Digital mystery satisfies on technical, emotional levels. | 15 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 96 users | 16 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 3607 users | 18 | |
| IMDB 20871 Netizens | 16 | |
| The Movie DB Community | 15 | |
Average .. 75% | 15 | |