I recently rewatched Jack Lemmon in Missing, which I hadn't seen in years. Lemmon's performance is just unbelievable. He plays the father of a young man who is arrested and disappears while living in Chile during a coup. In the beginning, we see him looking down his nose at his daughter-in-law and son for leaving the US and living what he considers an unrealistic, idealistic life. He has full faith in the "system" and believes that working through channels with the US Embassy will answer all their questions. As he and his daughter-in-law (played wonderfully by Sissy Spacek) are lied to over and over again by officials, you see that everything he has based his life on is slipping away. And he just wants his son back.

Considering what a great comedic actor he was, to see him in this role was even more impressive.