Gone Baby Gone | 
| Director: Ben Affleck
Actors: Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris
Studio: MIRAMAX
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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Running Time: 114 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DISD53738D
UPC: 786936727487
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ASIN: B0010ZR160
Theatrical Release Date: October 12, 2007
Release Date: February 12, 2008
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Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 08/15/2008 Run time: 114 minutes Rating: R
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For his initial offering as director, Ben Affleck returns to the site of his first Oscar: South Boston. (He and Matt Damon shared the award for Good Will Hunting.) Hot on the heels of his moving turn in Hollywoodland, Affleck's Dennis Lehane adaptation marks one of the more seamless actor-to-filmmaker transitions in recent years. Ostensibly, a procedural about the search for a missing child, class and corruption emerge as his primary concerns. First off, there's low-rent private eye Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck, equally adept in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford). Then there's the girl's drug mule mother, Helene (Amy Ryan, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead). She and Patrick grew up in Dorchester, but he took a different path, setting up an agency with his girlfriend, Angie (Michelle Monaghan). Helene's aunt, Bea (Amy Madigan), hires the duo to augment the investigation, and they team up with Captain Doyle (Morgan Freeman) and Detective Bressant (Madigan's husband, Ed Harris). The authorities don't appreciate the interference, but Patrick knows how to get the local populace talking, and he soon finds there's more to the story than anyone could possibly imagine. Hard-hitting, but never soft-headed, the evocative end result proves Affleck has a flair for this directing thing and that his little brother can carry a major motion picture with aplomb. Gone Baby Gone belongs on the list of great Boston crime dramas, along with The Departed and Mystic River, Clint Eastwood's take on Lehane. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 Mixed blessings January 9, 2009
L. S. Slaughter (Chapel Hill, NC)
The film has many wonderful moments and some solid performances; it's a worthy first effort from Ben Affleck as a director, though he would have been better-served to either work out the fractured structure of the script beforehand, and/or hire a better editor. A lot of tension is lost in the choppiness; it's not fluid, and the constant fade outs and ins only dilute the tension and make the key moments seem ham-fisted and melodramatic. The lensing is capable and evocative, but even some set-ups look beyond 'intentionally casual' and don't serve the high aspirations of the film. It's a gritty memorable tale, and a cut above most fare, for sure. I'd recommend despite it's faults.
Honourable January 9, 2009
N. Davies (Melbourne, Victoria)
PLOT
An unlikely partnership of private detectives, a young couple, are hired by a dysfunctional family to locate a missing toddler.
REVIEW
Whoever thought Ben Affleck could equal Clint Eastwood as an Actor-turned-director? I certainly didn't. And when it comes to the interpretation of Denis Lehane novels (Eastwood brought Lehane's "Mystic River" to the screen only recently), I'd have to say Affleck just might have bettered his seasoned counterpart.
Lehane's Boston, in all its understated, multi-layered glory, is captured methodically in this complex, frightening, but ultimately uplifting film. The plot is dense and carefully imagined, and the main cast, Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman, ensure the film plays out as a deeply personal, emotional tale.
"Gone Baby Gone" was a real surprise. Even if only one of the many brilliant sequences had made it to the final cut, it would have effortlessly lifted this film out of the quagmire of today's cinematic mediocrity. But, you see, the brilliant sequences role by one after another, after another, and the gestalt effect is memorable.
ELEPHANT STAMPS
Ben Affleck for Directing.
Casey Affleck for Acting.
Ed Harris for Acting.
The Affleck boys come of age January 2, 2009
Steven Reynolds (Sydney, Australia)
When 4 year-old Amanda McCready disappears from her bed in the middle of the night, her aunt does what her useless mother won't and engages a pair of private missing persons specialists to find her. They have little experience with this kind of case, but armed with local knowledge, serious courage and a dangerously evolved morality, Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and his partner in work and love, Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) accept - and get a lot more than they bargained for. The search for Amanda risks their lives, probes the dark history of the local police department, and threatens to destroy their relationship... The most pleasantly surprising thing about Ben Affleck's directorial debut is how assured it is. It's nicely adapted, slickly shot, cleverly edited, and stokes the requisite tension right from the start. Affleck really knows how to build a tense scene. The performances he extracts from his cast are terrific, especially from kid brother Casey who proves his star turn as Robert Ford last year was no fluke. Michelle Monaghan is engaging as his conflicted partner, and Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman are typically superb (despite faintly ludicrous characterizations). The plot topples over into semi-ridiculousness in Act 3, but by that stage it hardly matters: it's no longer about the story, it's about these characters, the choices they've made and must make now. In that regard, the final scenes are powerfully affecting, notwithstanding the hint of unreality about how we got there.
 strong and gritty--with quite an ending December 26, 2008
Matthew G. Sherwin
Gone Baby Gone is an outstanding movie with great actors and a plot that moves along so well and so fast that you are riveted to the edge of your seat the entire length of the film. The actors do a great job with the script and this is a strong showing for director Ben Affleck as his first film that made it to the big screen. The cinematography and the special effects enhance this movie all the more.
When the action starts, we are in Dorchester, Massachusetts outside Boston. Dorchester is a tough neighborhood filled with drug problems and other types of dangerous crime; nevertheless people live there all their lives and develop relationships that truly matter. When four year old Amanda McCready (Madeline O'Brien) goes missing, the police come in fast but they don't have strong leads. The girl's Aunt Bea (Amy Madigan) and her husband Lionel McCready (Titus Welliver) enlist the help of two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) to help solve the case. Bea and Lionel believe that Amanda's mother Helene (Amy Ryan) is not able to do enough to help find her daughter because of her emotional problems, not the least of which is that Helene scarcely cares what happens to her daughter. Patrick and Angie get some information from people in the neighborhood although even knowing these people for decades still makes getting any information difficult. Patrick and Angie also come up against Captain Jack Doyle (Morgan Freeman) from the police squad who is not exactly happy to have them around because they're not experienced cops.
The story takes many twists and turns which adds to the suspense; and the ending isn't necessarily clear until we see it in the very final moments of this picture. Along the way you can expect a strong performance from Morgan Freeman; and Amy Ryan steals the show as Amanda's mother Helene McCready, an almost hopeless drug addict who also gets involved in dealing drugs herself. Helene has even taken her child Amanda to a drug deal or two because, as she claims, she just doesn't "have daycare."
I must agree with the reviewers who note that this movie is very much for adults and mature audiences. There is a good deal of profanity and violence. Moreover, guns are whipped around faster than the bullets speeding out of them. Other issues raised include police corruption, child molestation and murder. It's not a Disney movie! However, don't be fooled--this is one strong movie worth owning in your collection.
The DVD comes with extras; the deleted scenes are really the best of them.
Overall, Gone Baby Gone presents us with a complicated thriller type of mystery that highlights the tragedy of child abduction and how it can affect so many people. The ending is good subject matter for debate; therefore for at least this one reason alone you won't forget this movie anytime soon.
It's OK. December 21, 2008
D. Landreth
It's OK. Don't put it at the top , or bottom, of your list.
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