Christian Baker, a young New York journalist from The Chronicle, gets assigned to a social story about the disappearance of Monique Watson, a 12 years old African-American girl from Brooklyn. Trying to get the assignment behind, he quickly and poorly researches the story and goes with the first lead. This brings down a series of pains. Christian with guilt decides to finally do his work properly finding himself in a race against time to help the family find the girl
Acting
Zazie Beetz elevates every scene she's in
Writing
Unflinching look at journalistic laziness and race
Director
Vlad Feier
Johnny Whitworth
Christian Baker
Zazie Beetz
Keysha
Afton Williamson
Tiffany Watson
Larry Pine
Jeffrey Hoffman
Jeremy Holm
Greg Spaulding
Danny Johnson
Anthony Evans
Jared Kemp
Andre Watson
Rupert Simonian
Sam Perkin
Gia Crovatin
Paige Sullivan
Steven Hauck
Captain Hardwick
Taliyah Whitaker
Amber Jekins
Tibor Feldman
Judge Snow
Valence Thomas
Frank Mitchell
Danielle Dallacco
Kristine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film directly addresses 'missing white woman syndrome' and how media ignores Black missing children cases, a disparity still urgently relevant.
This was Feier's feature debut; he cast Johnny Whitworth after seeing him in Limitless and wanted someone audiences would trust then slowly distrust.
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