The Vanishing

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When a young wife gets kidnapped while at a gas station mini mall/rest area and there's no one to help, who do you turn to? In The Vanishing, Keifer Sutherland is Jeff and Jeff Daniels as Barney Cousins are locked in a struggle to find Jeff's wife, Diane (Sandra Bullock), 3 yrs later in this thriller from 1993. Nancy Travis stars as Rita, a waitress who then becomes a fellow searcher after the truth. A very odd movie populated by strange characters. Based upon an earlier movie minus its brain, this version seems to miss the mark by a yard.

Erik M.

Plot hole: Just after Rita rescues Jeff, Diane's grave is seen close to where Jeff was buried alive. Even though Diane's been dead for several years, her make-shift grave site looks like it was freshly dug. There are no fallen leaves or other debris on top, no new vegetation (moss, grass, weeds, etc.) of any type growing on it, nor has the mound of dirt settled, shifted, or been affected by the weather.

raywest

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Barney Cousins: To me, to kill is not the worst thing you can imagine. There is more.

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Question: Why is there someone (looks like a policeman) lying in the road when Jeff's girlfriend, Diane, vanishes from the service station? (00:22:00 - 00:24:00)

Answer: He is a crew member lying in the road directly behind the brown G.R.S. Dye Works semi-truck (presumably trying to remain hidden from the camera's view), and we even see his right hand waving off the traffic ahead of him (00:22:05).

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