Missing (1982) review

Jack Lemmon (with his daughter-in-law) goes in search of his missing son in Chile, and gets numerous contradictory answers by everyone in the process as to his whereabouts. Lemmon's supposed to be in a barely contained rage, but the film paints the relationship with the son as shaky - the son's Nonreligious/Communist worldview (he works for a Leftist paper) don't mix well with Lemmon's Christian Science/Capitalist beliefs (when someone asks what Christian Science is about, he only says, "Faith."), and I was under the impression Lemmon almost blames his son for putting himself in such a position (in other words, that the son's left-leaning radicalism led to his own downfall). Costa-Gavras' goal is to condemn the United States in the killing of one of its foreign citizens - a fact proven by the declassified documents - although the picture isn't nearly impassioned enough to do any real finger waving: the mood is too aloof, and the director seems reluctant to go into a lot of detail. Sissy Spacek's performance has to be one of the weakest in her career.