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Gone Baby Gone
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Starring: Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris
Director: Ben Affleck
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MIRAMAX
Running Time: 114 minutes
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 422
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UPC: 786936727487
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Product Description:
Critics are calling Ben Affleck's directorial debut "mesmerizing" (Peter Travers ROLLING STONE). When two young private detectives (Casey Affleck (GOOD WILL HUNTING) and Michelle Monaghan MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III) are hired to take a closer look into the mysterious disappearance of a little girl they soon unravel a multitude of twists and turns where nothing is what it seems. Ultimately they must risk everything -- their relationship their sanity and even their lives -- in the search to find her. Casey Affleck and Morgan Freeman are electrifying and Amy Ryan (CAPOTE) delivers "a vibrant knockout performance" (Kenneth Turan LOS ANGELES TIMES) in this edge-of-your-seat crime drama. GONE BABY GONE "will have you talking long after it's over" (Christy Lemire THE ASSOCIATED PRESS).System Requirements:Running Time: 114 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 786936727487 Manufacturer No: 05373800
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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
YUCK BABY YUCK - 
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Gone Baby Gone DVD Review
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Who wants to watch a movie about drug addict trash mothers who have no business breeding? Crappy story, crappy ending.
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Auspicious Directorial Debut for Affleck -
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Gone Baby Gone DVD Review
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"Gone Baby Gone" heralds director Ben Affleck as an artistic prescence to be reckoned with. The film teems with a highly individualistic style informed by Affleck's upbringing in working class Boston. You can taste it in the art direction and the authentic dialogue espoused by the film's denizens. The film also contains one jawdropping performance by Amy Ryan as the crack-addicted mother of a missing child. That you can engender any sympathy for this apathetic character is a credit to Ryan as an actress. Oscar got it wrong on this one. I would be a little more enthused by the film if not for a slightly lackluster script, cowritten, ironically by Affleck. It's not that the plot is convoluted but a little too labyrinthian for my liking. Another thing that is blatantly obvious is the casting of Morgan Freeman in a role originally intended for a white actor. You can never quibble about employing an actor of the high calibre of Freeman but wouldn't it have made more sense to give his character a black wife? Nonetheless, an interesting film that's well worth your while.
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The right thing - 
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Gone Baby Gone DVD Review
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A little girl disappears from her run down Boston neighborhood, where Patrick Kenzie grew up and, now in his thirties, has never left. He and girlfriend Angie Gennaro live and work together, and life is good. When this pair of private investigators are asked to find the missing child, they reluctantly agree. But things don't go as hoped. And when Patrick finally uncovers the truth, he faces a moral dilemma that may affect everything he cares about.
Gone Baby Gone is based upon a gripping story, but the film somehow lacks the tension that the book itself sustains. The performance of Casey Affleck is too low key, and Michelle Monaghan as Angie has too little to do. Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, and Amy Ryan are more convincing. Settings, dialog, gritty atmosphere, and cinematography are all well done, and while GBG misses being great, its twists and a surprise ending make it well worth watching. (Heavy doses of profanity in parts.)
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I was surprised at how good this film was - 
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The only thing I'd known about this film before I first watched it was that there was a Lisbeth Scott song I loved in the film ("In the Darkness"), and that was the soundtrack CD I'd downloaded the song from. And I remembered that Amy Ryan had been nominated for an Oscar for her part, and the clip they showed on Oscar night made the film look interesting. But I saw it a month ago on cable, and two nights ago I watched it again and it was even better than the first time.
Amy Ryan is wonderful in the part of a hardscrabble mother whose child has gone missing, and Amy Madigan, who (like Ryan) doesn't seem to have enough screen time, is a standout as the aunt who will not leave the search for the child in the hands of the police, but hires a somewhat seedy neighborhood guy (Casey Affleck) who knows people who would never go to the cops, to augment the investigation. Ben Affleck did a wonderful job of directing a great cast. Morgan Freeman also stars in this film and I'd pretty much watch him in anything, but this film is honest and surprisingly affecting.
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MUCH BETTER THAN I EXPECTED! -
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My first impression of this film a hour in was that it was a typical Hollywood movie, but it has some very good twists and unexpected surprises. A thought provoking film about morality vs. law, this film does hold your interest. I did figure out a few plot twist before they happened, but it did throw a few curves I missed along the way. Solid performances and story make this a film worth seeing.
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