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The Missile

The Missile

6,2 /10 (17 Votes)
2024 FI 114 min

Overview

Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and that of her small northern village.

Release date

02/02/2024

Votes

17

Popularity

1.2

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

Ohjus

Language

FI

Runtime

114 min

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Brent Marchant

2024-10-22

⭐ 8

Who would have thought that a reserved, homespun single mother of two married to an abusive imprisoned husband could turn her life around by writing about the dangers of nuclear proliferation? But, if you’re Niina Kuittinen (Oona Airola), a young housewife living in rural Lapland, that’s precisely what happens when she takes a reporting job with a local newspaper and unwittingly stumbles into a story that almost any intrepid journalist would kill for – the crash of an off-course Soviet missile in the Finnish wilderness in 1984. She eagerly investigates the incident, despite limited experience …

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