I'll grant you that it would not be easy to wait a few weeks to get a passport before going to see your son, but the travel agent told her she would probably be detained and possibly deported back the U.S., in which case she would be right back where she started. The young man who played Mark/Matthew made me wish I was about 25 years younger than I am! (grin) But still. It was not at all surprising that she had men all over the place either sweet-talking her or bending the rules for her. He brought a naturalness and warmth to his role - and it doesn't hurt that he's a major hunk. What makes this film above average is Anwar's performance and seeing a new actor, Chace Crawford, who plays Matthew/Mark, the son. In this case, I bought it because I went with the mystical connection between mother and child - but really, if she had seen her husband on the video first, being suspicious about the young man would have made more sense. I had one other problem with this film, and that is, with Karen's son missing for 14 years, how could she have recognized him so readily? In real life, when the police thought they had found Eton Patz some years after he was kidnapped, the parents broke down when the saw the recent photo because they weren't sure that was their son. Naturally she runs into trouble when she arrives and her story about her husband is not believed as he is well-liked on the island and a friend of the police chief's. Anyone who has ever traveled to a foreign country knows that if you have a ticket, you can be issued a passport immediately. She brings a birth certificate that's not even an official copy. The travel agent suggests that she bring her birth certificate and driver's license. In order to give the character more obstacles, however, the writer added a plot hole - Karen buys her ticket for this island, but she has no passport. All of her physical mannerisms and emotions rang true throughout.
So upset that she is unable to walk, she doubles over and leans on furniture to get across the room, where she completely collapses. The scene where she hears on the answering machine that the search at sea for her husband and child will have to be abandoned is amazing. This film was a real tour de force for Anwar, who gives a beautiful performance as the mother. "The Long Lost Son" is about a woman who will not be stopped from going to the resort location and tracking down her child.
Gabrielle Anwar is Karen, a woman who believes her son and husband to be dead for the past 14 years - until she sees a young man and her husband in a vacation video.
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