John Cho Searching

Surely it is every parent's worst nightmare for a child to go missing. The nightmare is compounded when the hours stretch into days, without a single lead as to what happened. David Kim (John Cho) is faced with just such a nightmare in Searching when his 16-year-old daughter Margot goes missing. Consumed with desperation, David finally decides to search where no one else has looked: his daughter's laptop.

Our exclusive video from the hyper-modern thriller gives a sense of David's state of mind as he discovers that he doesn't really know his daughter as well as he thought he did. We hear from actors John Cho, who points out that 'there's question marks over the identity of any person,' Debra Messing, who plays Detective Rosemary Vick, and Michelle La, who plays the mysterious Margot, as well as director/co-writer Aneesh Chaganty and producer/co-writer Sev Ohanian. Can Margot ever be found?

Watch the chilling video vignette below and then get your tickets to Searching; the thriller will open in theaters everywhere on Friday, August 31.