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The Disappearance (2017)

The Disappearance poster
Genre
mystery, drama
Country
Canada
Length
1 season, 6 episodes
Rated
14+
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 24 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family searches for their missing young son. The story unfolds through the perspectives of his parents and other relatives.

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What happens

The Disappearance is a Canadian television drama miniseries, which premiered on CTV in October 2017. Centred on the disappearance of a young boy, the series stars Peter Coyote, Camille Sullivan, Aden Young, Joanne Kelly and Micheline Lanctôt. It later premiered in the UK on the Universal in February 2018. It premiered in the United States on July 9, 2019 on WGN America. The series was first developed in 2011 as a French language project written by Normand Daneau and Geneviève Simard, but after Productions Casablanca was unable to sell it to any of Quebec's francophone television networks they opted to translate the scripts into English, and were successful in pitching the series to Bell Media. The series was directed by Peter Stebbings. The series received several Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Limited Series or Program and Best Actress in a Television Film or Miniseries (Sullivan). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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