There have been thrillers that used the medium of shooting all the action through screens before – Open Windows and Unfriended among them. They don't always work, but that isn't stopping filmmakers giving it a crack. The latest example is Searching, and the trailer is now online.
Aneesh Chaganty's film finds John Cho as David Kim, whose 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.
With the story told through the technology we use today, David must trace his daughter’s digital footprints before she disappears forever.
Searching will be in US cinemas on 31 August.
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