This movie starts out as a seemingly innocent film but as you get deeper and deeper into the film the more crazy it gets. It all starts out with a family having a nice gathering and enjoying time with each other. But soon the main characters daughter goes on a trip and she goes missing for months. He does what any father would do and calls the police but they are of no help, so he takes matters into his own hands. He hires a very expensive investigator to locate his missing child but even that takes months with minimal result. The only thing that he could do next was go to California where his daughter went missing and get to the bottom of it himself. Through many leads, many connections and a hoax of false information he finally comes to find out his beloved and innocent daughter has become involved with the porn industry.
Much throughout the movie the main character "Jake" seemed to be very out of place in California. But as the movie continued I had a feeling that Jake would change his old ways from Grand Rapids, Michigan and conform the the California ways. And he did change, very quickly he realized that he cant be the nice guy from Michigan. He quickly picked up persona of being a bad-ass in order to actually make some progress in finding his daughter. The Searchers and Hardcore are two movies that blew my mind in regards to how similar they are. In both movies a young innocent girl is lost and then found a great while later. Both movies even had the same ending, The girl was found and had changed for the worse. But they people who were searching for them still loved them and wanted them to return to safety. "The happy ending is one of many things with which Schrader expresses dissatisfaction on the Blu-ray commentary track; it was a studio-imposed alternative to his original climax, in which Jake discovered that his daughter had been killed in a car wreck completely unrelated to her adventures in porn"(Hemphill). If they changed the ending of this movie it would have really changed the two movies but I am glad that it stayed the way it is, because if they were to make it so Crystal dies in a car crash that would have slightly annoyed me. Overall, I think that this was a good way to get a little bit more modern look at The Searchers and look at the same type of movie from different perspectives and angles.
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