Missing Link is a 2019 stop-motion adventure comedy that pairs a globe-trotting explorer with an unlikely travel companion: a towering, softly self-aware creature searching for a place to belong.
What is Missing Link about?
Sir Lionel Frost, an explorer obsessed with proving cryptid legends real, stumbles onto the strangest discovery of his career: a sasquatch-like being capable of speech and reasoning. The creature, nicknamed Mr. Link, wants help reaching a fabled valley rumored to house relatives of his own kind. Frost agrees, less out of kindness than ambition, and the pair are soon joined by Adelina Fortnight, a resourceful adventurer with her own reasons for the journey. What starts as a rescue mission for status and glory turns into a trek across oceans and mountains, dodging a scheming rival who wants the discovery silenced rather than celebrated. Along the way, Frost's assumptions about heroism and companionship are quietly dismantled by the very creature he set out to use.
About the cast
Hugh Jackman voices Frost with the clipped bravado of a man who has read too many of his own press clippings, while Zach Galifianakis brings an unexpectedly tender, plainspoken warmth to Mr. Link. Zoe Saldana rounds out the trio as Adelina, giving the group's most grounded perspective. Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Timothy Olyphant, Matt Lucas and David Walliams fill out the supporting cast, adding texture to the film's globe-spanning gallery of explorers, villains and eccentrics.
Context & significance
The film comes from the stop-motion studio behind Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, and that pedigree shows in the handcrafted detail of its sets and creature design, built to survive close-up scrutiny frame by frame. Its story pulls from Victorian-era exploration fiction and cryptozoology folklore, reframing the hunt for a mythical being as a story about found family and letting go of ego. The blend of physical craft and old-fashioned adventure-serial plotting sets it apart from most animated comedies of its era.
Watching Missing Link on Ktime
Missing Link streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the film is available with Persian dubbing as well as Persian subtitles, making it an easy pick for family movie nights across the Iranian diaspora. No special setup is needed beyond signing in.