Missing And What's Making Us Happy
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The news thriller Missing is about our connected world. |
| 0:07.7 | The social media, the surveillance cameras, the news footage, the video chats, the many, |
| 0:12.4 | many things we can see from our screens. |
| 0:15.2 | Storm Reed plays a young woman whose mother leaves on a trip with her boyfriend and seems |
| 0:18.8 | to just vanish. |
| 0:20.4 | Desperate to solve the mystery, Reed uses everything she knows to figure out what's going |
| 0:24.6 | on and save her mother's life. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm Stephen Thompson. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm Linda Holmes and today we're talking about the movie Missing on Pop Culture Happy |
| 0:31.5 | Hour from NPR. |
| 0:33.6 | Joining us today is switched on pop producer Rihanna Cruz. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome back, Rihanna. |
| 0:38.1 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:39.1 | Happy to be here. |
| 0:40.1 | Absolutely. |
| 0:41.1 | So, some of you may have seen the 2018 film Searching, which starred John Cho as a father |
| 0:47.4 | looking for his missing daughter. |
| 0:49.6 | Searching was also made up of only what you could see on his various screens as he tried |
| 0:54.1 | to navigate his daughter's much more online world. |
| 0:57.7 | Something is loosely set in the same cinematic universe. |
| 1:01.0 | I guess you could say and shares some of the same creative team behind the scenes. |
| 1:05.6 | It was written and directed by Will Merrick and Nick Johnson. |
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