Tackling the issue of child abduction, docudrama Megan Is Missing was released on DVD on May 3, 2011, from Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Written and directed by Michael Goi, the movie combines the stories of seven real-life child abduction cases to show the dangers children face each day.
Shown through webcams, cell phones, surveillance footage, news reports and handheld-video clips, the fictional film follows Megan Stewart (Rachel Quinn) and her best friend Amy Herman (Amber Perkins), typical suburban 14-year-olds whose favorite pastime is chatting with friends online. When Megan disappears after meeting a boy she has been chatting with online, Amy tries to find her friend and uncovers a terrifying truth, until she disappears herself.
As described by the writer/director, Megan Is Missing is a disturbing film, graphically depicting the horrors of child abduction and Internet predators. As Goi says about his choices when making the movie: “I’d like to defeat the kind of evil that motivates someone to take the life of a child. Evil thrives in the world if you allow it to. And to defeat evil, you first have to know what evil is. Megan Is Missing is me — and now you — staring evil in the face.”
Goi, who was nominated for a cinematography Emmy Award for TV’s My Name Is Earl, says his goal was to make the film as realistic as possible, to show the lives and dangers children face. To achieve that, he asked teenage daughters of friends to allow him to eavesdrop on their private conversations, and those dictated the dialog in the movie. The story is based on seven real-life child abduction cases, five of which dealt with murder and two with online predators. “There is not a single incident in the film that I made up entirely out of thin air,” Goi says.
The DVD was priced at $26.98. No special features have been set yet.
Check out the film’s trailer:
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