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Gone Baby Gone is a critically acclaimed crime drama directed by Ben Affleck and adapted by Affleck and Aaron Stockard. The movie is set in Boston and is based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. It stars Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan as Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, two private investigators hunting for an abducted four-year-old girl in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. Amy Ryan received an Oscar nomination for her performance as Helene McCready.
When a young girl, Amanda, goes missing in Boston, the case attracts widespread media attention. Private investigator Kenzie (Casey Affleck) with his partner and girlfriend Angie (Michelle Monaghan) are hired by the child's aunt to find her. She believes that their familiarity with the neighborhood will give them greater success than the local police and their captain, Doyle (Morgan Freeman), who lost his child under similar circumstances. Kenzie and Angie discover that Amanda's mother, Helene (Amy Ryan), and her boyfriend, "Skinny Ray", had stolen $130,000 from a local drug lord. Helene reveals the location of the money after Ray is murdered by the drug lord. Kenzie, Angie and the police detectives investigating the case, Nick and Remy (John Ashton and Ed Harris), arrange to trade the money with him for Amanda. The drop at a nearby quarry in Quincy is botched and it is believed Amanda drowned. Captain Doyle takes responsibility for the detectives' actions and goes into early retirement.
A seven-year-old boy is abducted a couple months after Amanda's death. Kenzie poses as a drug dealer after receiving information that the boy has been abducted by a known pedophile (Matthew Maher) being harboured by two drug-addicted accomplices in Everett. Kenzie later returns to the house with Nick and Remy in order to rescue the boy after finding evidence of his presence. A shoot-out occurs when Nick and Remy enter the house. Nick is shot in the neck and Kenzie enters the house to find one of the accomplices was killed. An altercation with the other accomplice ensues, causing Kenzie to retreat into the pedophile's room. The pedophile is seen sitting on the floor and tells Kenzie that it was an accident; Kenzie finds the boy's dead body then shoots the pedophile in the back of the head.
Nick later dies in a hospital. Kenzie recognizes a police officer at the funeral, (Michael K. Williams), from an earlier visit to the police station and questions him. The police officer tells Kenzie that Remy had been asking about the stolen money before the drug lord knew it was missing. Kenzie questions Amanda's uncle, Lionel (Titus Welliver), and pieces together that Lionel and Remy conspired in a false kidnapping in order to take the money for themselves and to punish Amanda's mother for her poor parenting. Lionel speaks to Kenzie in a local bar, telling him that Amanda's death was an accident and that the phony trade was arranged with the help of the drug lord's associate. Remy enters the bar and stages a robbery while wearing a latex mask and holding a shotgun in order to kill Lionel before he can confess. Lionel tells Remy what he has already told Kenzie and Remy backs away, but not before the barkeeper shoots Remy twice in the chest. Remy flees and is pursued by Kenzie to the rooftop of a nearby building. Kenzie asks Remy why he did it. Remy only replies that he loves kids before dying.
Kenzie is later questioned about Remy's death and inadvertently discovers that a call transcript which led to the quarry meeting was forged - meaning Doyle was involved in setting up the exchange. He is not satisfied with what he knows about Amanda's abduction and drives with Angie to Captain Doyle's home. He discovers Amanda is alive and living with Doyle and his wife. A flashback reveals that Amanda's death was staged and how Doyle was a part of the phony kidnapping all along. Kenzie threatens to call the authorities, but Doyle attempts to convince him that Amanda is better off living with them than with her drug-addicted, careless mother. Kenzie departs to discuss the choice with Angie, who says she will leave him if he calls the police. The police arrive and Doyle is arrested. Amanda is reunited with her mother, and Kenzie and Angie break up. Kenzie later visits Amanda and her mother, Helene, who is just about to leave on a date. He volunteers to watch over Amanda while she is out and they sit on a couch to watch television.
[edit] Release
Released on 19 October 2007, the film has grossed an estimated $20,241,408 domestically and $27,802,836 globally as of 7 February[1]
The UK release was originally set for 28 December 2007 but was pushed back to 18 April 2008 due to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
The film was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on 12 February 2008. Extras include commentary by Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard, deleted scenes, and two behind-the-scenes featurettes.
[edit] Critical reception
The film received mainly positive reviews from critics. As of December 31, 2007, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported 93% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 138 reviews.[2] The review aggregator Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 72 out of 100, based on 33 reviews.[3]
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone raved "The brothers Affleck both emerge triumphant in this mesmerizing thriller.",[4] while The New York Post called it "a twisty, morally ambiguous and satisfying neo-noir".[5] Patrick Radden Keefe criticized the film for overstating the case in an otherwise laudable attempt to "capture Boston in all its sordid glory," writing that "The result is not so much what Mean Streets did for New York as what Deliverance did for Appalachia."[6]
[edit] Top ten lists
The film appeared on several critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007.[7]
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