My Son

Matt Roush says...

The streamer has acquired this intriguing international coproduction, a remake of a 2017 French thriller (also directed by Christian Carion), starring X-Men and His Dark Materials’ James McAvoy and Claire Foy—who just won her second Emmy (this time as a guest actress) for Netflix’s The Crown. The twist in this missing-person drama is that, as in the original, the male lead is flying blind without a script or dialogue, improvising as the action unfolds. McAvoy plays a man whose 7-year-old son goes missing, presumably kidnapped from a campsite, and his desperate search for answers sends him to the town where his ex-wife (Foy) lives.

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