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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5035017010105
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 229215
Theatrical Release Date: February 05, 1993
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
It's not unusual for Hollywood to remake European hits. What is unusual is the director of the original getting the chance to helm the new version with an American cast, which is what happened with this film based on an intensely creepy Dutch film of the same name (both directed by George Sluizer). Kiefer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock are on vacation when, while stopped at a crowded rest area, she disappears. He devotes the next several years to discovering what happened to her, ruining his life in the process. When he does get a clue, it leads him to Jeff Bridges, who plays a bizarre and highly organized individual whose motives are almost as strange as he is. Bridges is spooky, but Sluizer ultimately is undone by Hollywood's demand for a happy ending, which makes this film affecting but far less unsettling than the original. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Obsession used as a weapon
This is an interesting thriller with great acting by Kiefer Sutherland and Nancy Travis in their roles. Jeff Bridges showed that he really is a good actor but his "evil" doesn't really mesh with how he helps his students and his concern for their safety during chemistry experiments. The other problem with how the director has Jeff Bridges portraying the killer is the foreign accent and appearing mentally slow and socially inept at the beginning of the movie. I found the ending anti-climatic with ... Read More
Rating:  - In the blink of an eye.
The Vanishing starring Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, and Kiefer Sutherland was a much ignored film from 1993. Bullock wasn't a household name yet and Sutherland was just starting to show his acting chops. I like Sutherland in this film, his performance is haunting and intense. I think this film is based on another film, parts of this film are slow and tepid but great acting from the cast and interesting storyline, give this sleeper of a thriller a chance.
Rating:  - Worst remake ever....spoilers....
Many decry Hollywood remaking great European and Asian films nowadays, but they were doing it many years ago. This is a great example of the sickness of Hollywood. This film trashes everything that made the original unique and scary, and tacks on one of the most asinine, childish, unbelieveable happy endings I've ever seen.
This film should be thrown out into the nearest incinerator, it's that bad. They added a girlfriend for Keifer's character (the original film just concentrated ... Read More
Rating:  - Great movie
This is one of those movies that keep you on the edge of your seat. Great actors and great acting. . .loved it!!
Rating: - Five Stars For The First Half, Three Stars For the Second
I'll start out by saying I have neither seen the Dutch film of which this is a remake or read the novel THE GOLDEN EGG that was the source material for both movies. From reading a little bit about the acclaimed Dutch film it sounds like the first half of the Hollywood version of THE VANISHING follows the original movie very closely but then the second half becomes more of a "by the numbers" Hollywood thriller with some action sequences and the requisite happy ending for the survivors.
I'm ... Read More
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