Without a Trace

Without a Trace (1983)

One morning, Alex Selky got dressed, waved goodbye to his mother, set off for school and disappeared.

English professor Susan Selky lives alone in a Brooklyn apartment with her young son, Alex. When Alex fails to return home from school one afternoon, a frantic Selky contacts the police. Detective Al Menetti, a father himself, takes an interest in the case that quickly turns into an obsession. As a devastated Selky struggles to come to terms with Alex's disappearance, Menetti steps out from behind the badge to continue investigating.

Date of release
1983-02-04
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (32)
Runtime
2h 0m
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Director
Stanley R. Jaffe

Casting

Interesting facts

Without a Trace is a 1983 American drama film directed by Stanley R. Jaffe and starring Kate Nelligan, Judd Hirsch, David Dukes and Stockard Channing. Adapted by screenwriter Beth Gutcheon from her own 1981 novel Still Missing, the story is partly based on the real-life disappearance of Etan Patz.

Production

The film's screenplay was written by novelist and screenwriter Beth Gutcheon, who kept the film relatively faithful to her novel Still Missing, a work of fiction. The one glaring difference between the book and the film is that the book was set in Boston, while the film was set and filmed in New York. The film was originally supposed to be titled Still Missing, but was changed by the studio to avoid confusion with the 1982 film Missing.

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