There’s a mass of incongruities—some clever, others shockingly ill-conceived—in Noah Buschel’s The Missing Person, a…

Cast
Michael Shannon (John Rosow)Frank Wood (Harold Fullmer)Amy Ryan (Miss Charley)Linda Emond (Mrs. Fullmer)John Ventimiglia (Hero)Margaret Colin (Lana)Paul Sparks (Gus Papitos)Yul Vazquez (Don Edgar)Paul Adelstein (Drexler Hewitt)Kate Arrington (Jane Rosow)Anthony Esposito (Javier)Liza Weil (Agent Chambers)Daniel Franzese (Agent Craig)Merritt Wever (Mabel Page)Gary Wilmes (L.A. Cop (Eric Jelin))Betsy Hogg (Melody (Smoking Car Girl #1))Halley Wegryn Gross (Chloe (Smoking Car Girl #2))Rodrigo Lopresti (Carlos Clemente (L.A. Taxi Driver))
Director
Noah Buschel
Synopsis
Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing the missing person back to his wife in New York City.