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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>John Cho at CNET HQ.<br><br>Angela Lang/CNET<br><br><br>The movie [ Searching] is a classic thriller made in the vein of Hitchcock, but told in a decidedly contemporary way. Starring John Cho, it follows a father trying to find his missing daughter. What makes the film inventive is that it's told mainly on Cho's missing daughter's laptop screen.<br>[ ] calls it "edge-of-the-seat tense and enormously funny." The indie film took home two prizes from this year's Sundance film festival: the Audience Award, and the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, for an outstanding feature about science or technology.<br><br>Cho visited CNET last week, along with co-writer and director Aneesh Chaganty and co-writer Sev Ohanian. We discussed the insane undertaking of making a movie that takes place solely on screens and how Chaganty convinced Cho to star in it after he initially turned the role down.<br><br>Searching opens in the US and UK on Friday, Aug. 31, with an Australian release yet to be announced. Watch or listen to the full interview below.<br>