Searching

About Searching

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

Searching (2018) is a mystery thriller film directed by Aneesh Chaganty. The film is filed under missing person, mysterious, disappearance, and stalker.

John Cho takes the lead as David Kim, Michelle La as Margot, Debra Messing as Detective Vick, and Joseph Lee as Peter. It runs 102 minutes and was released in August 2018.

The screenplay is by Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian.

Unfriended, Megan Is Missing, and Howard’s Mill make useful companions to Searching, all filed under computer screen, facebook, and found footage. TMDB voters put it at 7.6 out of 10 across 4,399 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.