Girl Missing (2015 TV Movie) User Reviews

Typical Lifetime

[SecretDoll · 5/10 · 13 July 2016]

I enjoy Lifetime Movies, even though the majority are only worth 5 or 6 stars. It catches your attention and if you like teen drama movies, and have some time on your hands, this would be an acceptable movie to waste your time on. The movie starts off slow and confusing. The ending feels rushed. The middle covers a lot of the pieces to the puzzle but not all.

Overall, 5 stars. The actors weren't very in depth, making the movie feel a lot more bland than it could have been. Still a partially enjoyable movie. Don't assume it's horrible, because it's not, it's just slow and bland.

a bad Lifetime movie

[LiveLoveLead · 4/10 · 28 August 2017]

I enjoy Lifetime movies even though they are typically B movies, but this one was on the lower end of the Lifetime rating scale. The acting was really bad. There was NO character development. The story was completely predictable, and there were tons of plot holes. Also, the film was super low budget. For example, about 7 minutes into the film you can see the boom mics bouncing above the actor's heads. The plot is about a young woman who was found wandering in a snowy forest at 8 years old. After growing up an orphan, now 15 years later they may have found her family. There is so much about this story that doesn't make any sense. They never explain why the mother comes looking for her now, so many years later, or how she finally did find her daughter. The girl, Jane, chooses not to wait for DNA results or take her social worker's advice. Jane also doesn't even ask her mother what happened or why they took so long to find her. In My Humble Opinion, Skip this one! This is not a Lifetime movie I would recommend, even to the average Lifetime enthusiast. 8/2007

Abandoned in a Ditch

[lavatch · 6/10 · 22 October 2019]

Early in the film "Girl Missing," there is a scene in which the main character Jane receives news that sounds virtually miraculous. Jane has been raised in a foster home after being discovered in a ditch as a child. But she has amnesia, and, fifteen years later, she is unable to recall any details from her past.

Then, out of the blue, a social worker relates to her that a woman has come forward to claim that Jane is her lost daughter Savannah. When Jane is invited to the family home, the social worker urges her to wait until the DNA results are back. But Jane insists on going right way. At this point, the audience is nearly screaming at the TV, "DON'T GO, JANE!!!!" Alas, this is a Lifetime picture, and Jane impulsively visits the home!

When Jane arrives at the home, she discovers an enormous estate in northern Minnesota. For Jane, something does not seem right with her mother, Sylvia, and her husband, Carlo, who had married Sylvia a couple of years after the apparent suicide of Sylvia's husband, Robert. Carlo seems especially sleazy, and Jane's boyfriend, Finch, does some internet research to learn that Carlo is a gigolo with a shady and suspicious past.

By the midpoint of the film, the narrative turns into a predictable horror story. Jane is now trapped in the estate with the roads closed and no cell phone reception. Her only ally is the maid Theresa, who helped to rear the infant Jane. But it is not clear if Theresa will be loyal to Jane or to Sylvia and Carlo.

By the end of the film, the action has petered out to the degree that there is no longer any mystery or suspense. One of the most cheezy choices of the filmmakers was to include a supernatural little girl who appears in the minds of both Jane and Sylvia. That artistic choice was emblematic of the lame attempts made of the filmmakers to send shivers up the spines of the audience. Still, the excellent performance of the actress playing Jane made this film slightly above average as an offering in the mystery-thriller-horror genre.

No surprises here

[phd_travel · 3/10 · 5 November 2017]

Francesca Eastwood stars as a young lady who is reunited with to her mother and stepfather years after she was found in a forest suffering from amnesia as a little girl. She looks prettier here than in some of her previous movies.

Unfortunately the story has no twist. It's not necessary to have a twist for the sake of a twist but in this movie everything is kind of obvious from the beginning and just unfolds predictably and kind of boringly.

Not worth watching.

Yawn

[tamrbrwn-59647 · 4/10 · 5 December 2022]

I'm not even half way through but this whole story line is stupid a billionaires daughter disappears and her face wasn't on every tv billboard there is that's makes no sense and then out of the blue this weird so called mother and why they chose her to play this part I don't know she is not that great of a actress but anyway she comes and easily persuades her to come to the estate with her suspect loud boyfriend that's over annoying and needs a lot of attention we all know right about now that she is only there because she inherited the money from her father and they want it now we have seen many like this before and we can watch them if the actors were good I thought they would have made this girl a little savvy and tough since she did grow up in foster care but she stupid which makes it uninteresting which these aren't so I'm going to stop watching now I may go back in as week right now I want to watch something interesting and why do we have to right a minimum of 1000 words on here.

Really garbage movie!

[austinwsumner · 1/10 · 5 May 2022]

The movies is completely awful and boring! I tried to figure out what was happening most of the time! The girl and especially the spouse acting all drunk and afraid to even explain anything! Like this movie has no interest whatsoever that can't even explain! So I give this 1 star. Wow what a waste of time including the fran main blonde girl not looking into the camera much either!

Good film with plenty of plot holes

[marinagraydon · 7/10 · 21 December 2016]

I did enjoy this film but there were lots of holes in the story line and things didn't always make sense. The acting was really good and Carlo was a very convincing creepy guy. I didn't like him even before I knew he was a baddie. Unsure why they had to call the poor girl back into their lives just to try and bump her off again. If they were playing a long game with regards to the inheritance you would think they could have waited longer than a day to talk about the money. Also the hole that Carlo dug at the end was ridiculously unbelievable and when Savannah/Jane burst out of being buried alive she miraculously had no mud in her hair. Aside from all that it was still very watchable.

I'm Savannah

[nogodnomasters · 5/10 · 27 February 2018]

This is a Lifetime film rated TV-14. The film opens with a little girl (Lyliana Wray) with no memory. Fifteen years later, enter Jane Smith (Francesca Eastwood) an unsuccessful artist who just found out her real mother is a billionaire heiress, who lives in a remote home. Mom (Kiersten Warren) is a bit odd as is her boy-toy husband Carlo ( Frederico Dordei). Things don't seem right as her memory slowly returns.

This is a made-for-TV drama thriller. You either like Lifetime films or you don't. The mystery aspect of the film didn't have the necessary twist I needed to really enjoy the feature. The plot was fairly simple and lacked surprises even through it was shrouded

Great movie

[jill_wooden · 7/10 · 6 July 2022]

I absolutely loved this movie, the main character, and I love big old houses in movies too. I wish the roommate would of been in more scenes but I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed this one.

Worth watching!

[mmmartie · 9/10 · 25 February 2020]

Mom and I decided to watch a random movie when we couldn't find anything on TV. I had picked out a few and we gave this one a try. My expectations were somewhat low, and even though I thought I'd figured out the plot early on, it held my attention the whole way through. It was so much better than I was expecting. I thought the acting was great. I liked it enough that I will probably watch it again at some point.

A missing girl finds out she might be the heir of a grand estate on Lake Superior

[Wuchakk · 6/10 · 6 November 2022]

A girl with amnesia is found in the woods and grows up an orphan. When she's an adult, a case-worker says a woman (Kiersten Warren) claims that she's her missing daughter. Jane (Francesca Eastwood) goes to the beautiful manor where she meets the estate manager and the woman's charismatic beau (Federico Dordei). It seems too good to be true, so what's the catch?

"Girl Missing" (2015) is a crime drama/thriller involving a manor-in-the-woods, like "Cold Creek Manor" (2003), but with a story and budget closer to "Glass House 2: The Good Mother" (2006). The awesome manor itself is a highlight, which is Glensheen Mansion in Duluth, on the western tip of Lake Superior. Beautiful Francesca (Clint's daughter) was 21 during shooting and is also a highlight.

The drama is one-dimensional, revolving around 3-4 characters within the hallowed halls of the estate and grounds. Moreover, the story's kinda predictable, which is actually preferrable to eye-rolling twists.

The movie runs 1 hour, 24 minutes, and was shot entirely in Minnesota.

GRADE: B-