The Vanished (2020 film)

The Vanished (formerly titled Hour of Lead)[1] is a 2020 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Peter Facinelli.

The film stars Thomas Jane, Anne Heche, Jason Patric and Facinelli and follows a couple who sets out to find their daughter who disappeared during their camping trip.

Sheriff Baker and Deputy Rakes organize a search party but tell Paul and Wendy to stay put.

Later, Wendy suspects Tom might be responsible, so she searches his place, uncovering a hidden passageway leading to a toilet and a closet shelf with a stash of child pornography videos.

Baker suspects Tom was part of a child pornography network, and with the case seemingly solved, Paul convinces Wendy to throw away Taylor's stuff to bring closure.

Baker eventually receives a Dear John letter from his wife but then notices something strange about a photo of the Michaelsons—they are posed in front of the World Trade Center before the September 11 attacks and Wendy is pregnant in the picture, implying that Taylor would have been much older than 10 years old.

Flashbacks show the couple murdering Eric and Miranda, Paul planting the beads in the RV and Justin discovering the blanket which has the daughter's real birth date printed on it.

[10] Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com awarded the film three stars, writing:[The] wrap up got me good, enough to make me admire Facinelli's ambition and handling of mechanics.

The movie’s original title was “Hour of Lead,” a phrase from the Emily Dickinson poem that is laid out in white type before the opening credits.