“Missing Link,” the latest from Hillsboro-based Laika animation studio, is riding high this awards season. With an Academy Award nomination for best animated feature and a Golden Globe win to its name, the animated story about a Bigfoot-like creature is sure to find new audiences online.
But where can you watch it? The 94-minute film is streaming on AmazonPrime and Hulu. Card holders at Multnomah County Libraries can add their names to the hold list. Washington County Cooperative Library Services has 71 “Missing Link” DVDs for checkout.
Though the film received warm critical reviews, audiences didn’t turn out to movie theaters to see the film. Now’s your chance to catch up.
The story follows the Bigfoot/Sasquatch-like creature known as “Mr. Link” (and also, because why not, “Susan”) on a Victorian-era journey. Mr. Link joins forces with a globe-trotting myth-and-monster investigator, Sir Lionel Frost, and the two set out to find Mr. Link’s relations, the Yeti, in the Himalayas.
For Oregonians, the movie offers a chance to bask in a bit of local pride, both in the Oregon-based studio founded by Phil Knight and in our affection for Sasquatch sightings of all kinds.
— The Oregonian/OregonLive