<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $60 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $38.4 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Missing is a 2003 American Revisionist Western thriller film directed by Ron Howard, based on Thomas Eidson's 1996 novel The Last Ride . The film is set in 1885 New Mexico Territory and is notable for the authentic use of the Apache language by various actors, some of whom spent long hours studying it . The film was produced by Revolution Studios, Imagine Entertainment, and Daniel Ostroff Productions and distributed by Columbia Pictures . </P> <P> In late 19th - century New Mexico, Samuel Jones reappears hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Magdalena "Maggie" Gilkeson . She is unable to forgive him for abandoning the family and leaving her mother to a hard life and early death . This situation changes when Pesh - Chidin and a dozen of his followers (who have left the reservation) pass through the area, ritualistically killing settlers and taking their daughters to be sold into sex slavery in Mexico . Among those captured is Maggie's eldest daughter, Lilly . Maggie's rancher boyfriend Brake Baldwin was among the settlers killed . </P>

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