Just Another Missing Kid (1981)
Directed by John Zaritsky · 90 min · Documentary
12.9 TOPICAL score · #5,267 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →On July 10, 1978, Eric Wilson - a 19-year from Ottawa and student at Tufts University - left home to drive to a summer college course in Colorado. When he went missing four days afterward in Nebraska, his family tried to persuade local and U.S. police that he wasn't simply a runaway and hadn't simply forgotten to call home. The program examines the lengths to which they had to go to find out what happened to Eric, and the byzantine nature of the legal system which seemed less interested in pursuing justice than in avoiding the expenses involved in the investigation and potential trials. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in 2007.
Just Another Missing Kid (1981, directed by John Zaritsky) has a TOPICAL score of 12.9 - ranked 5,267 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and historical impact, and lowest on historical impact. It won 1 award from 1 nomination, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. Audiences: TMDB 7.7/10 (6 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 8 languages.
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- AudienceTMDB 7.7/10 (6 ratings)
- Awards1 win, 1 nomination - incl. Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 8 languages
- Still read742 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days