Searching trailer: John Cho looks for his missing daughter using just a laptop in this crafty thriller

Technology, parents and children can be a strangely precarious combination. This forms the foundation of upcoming thriller Searching. Searching is one of those movies that has used contemporary, twenty-first century technology to tell the story, and from the look of the trailer, it is highly engaging and full of twists and turns. [caption id=“attachment_4465477” align=“alignnone” width=“825”]  A still from Searching/Image from Twitter.[/caption] The movie revolves around the story of David Kim’s (John Cho) 16-year-old daughter Margot (Michelle La) who goes missing. A detective is assigned to the case, but without a single lead after 37 hours, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet: his daughter’s laptop. In this hyper-modern thriller told using technological devices we use every day, David must trace his daughter’s digital footprints before she disappears forever.

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The movie has been directed by Aneesh Chaganty and stars John Cho (known for Star Trek, Harold and Kumar), Debra Messing (Will & Grace), Joseph Lee, Michelle La, and Sara Sohn. It is scheduled for a 3 August release and has received rave reviews from critics. The website Roger Ebert wrote, “displays the type of roller coaster experience that can be achieved from crafty writing and a canvas as simple as a blank screen.” You can watch the trailer here: