Gone Baby Gone
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Manufacturer: MIRAMAX
Starring: Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris
Directed By: Ben Affleck
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
EAN: 0786936727487
Format: AC-3
Label: MIRAMAX
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MIRAMAX
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-02-12
Running Time: 114
Studio: MIRAMAX
Theatrical Release Date: 2007-10-12
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Honourable
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Affleck boys come of age
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: strong and gritty--with quite an ending
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It's OK.
Comment: It's OK. Don't put it at the top , or bottom, of your list.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Awful acting, barely competent directing
Comment: First off, if you expect the main protagonist to have any depth whatsoever, please disabuse yourself of this misapprehension before beginning the movie. Casey Afflect cannot act, sorry to say. He mumbles rather than speaks, has only one expression (a slightly bored, slightly cynical, mostly "what the heck am I supposed to do now?"), is way too young for the part, and never, never convincingly shows his motivations or character. Why would anyone be afraid of him, and why would anyone ever confide in him? And how does he seem to know, from school (!??!!!) almost every non-policeman in the movie?
The protagonist's girlfried is a cypher who seems to hang around her boyfriend for no discernable reason, doesn't seem to help him, and, like her man, has only one expression.
On the plus side, Ed Harris is good.
To the movie itself, it is a collection of scenes, not a coherent whole. What motivates the characters is either unsaid, and therefore unguessable, or presented at a sophomoric level. No subtlety at all.
Maybe in trying to film the book the screenwriters wanted to include specific scenes and then tried to tie them together. Since the actors were bad, we can't determine why things happened through either their personalities or actions, but have to depend on the writing. Unfortunately, too much must have been lost in going from book to screen.
In short, a mess.
Avoid.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Honourable
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Affleck boys come of age
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: strong and gritty--with quite an ending
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It's OK.
Comment: It's OK. Don't put it at the top , or bottom, of your list.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Awful acting, barely competent directing
Comment: First off, if you expect the main protagonist to have any depth whatsoever, please disabuse yourself of this misapprehension before beginning the movie. Casey Afflect cannot act, sorry to say. He mumbles rather than speaks, has only one expression (a slightly bored, slightly cynical, mostly "what the heck am I supposed to do now?"), is way too young for the part, and never, never convincingly shows his motivations or character. Why would anyone be afraid of him, and why would anyone ever confide in him? And how does he seem to know, from school (!??!!!) almost every non-policeman in the movie?
The protagonist's girlfried is a cypher who seems to hang around her boyfriend for no discernable reason, doesn't seem to help him, and, like her man, has only one expression.
On the plus side, Ed Harris is good.
To the movie itself, it is a collection of scenes, not a coherent whole. What motivates the characters is either unsaid, and therefore unguessable, or presented at a sophomoric level. No subtlety at all.
Maybe in trying to film the book the screenwriters wanted to include specific scenes and then tried to tie them together. Since the actors were bad, we can't determine why things happened through either their personalities or actions, but have to depend on the writing. Unfortunately, too much must have been lost in going from book to screen.
In short, a mess.
Avoid.
Gone Baby Gone is Ben Affleck s directorial debut, adapted by Affleck from the novel by Dennis Lehane "Mystic River".
It is an intense look inside an ongoing investigation about the mysterious disappearance of a little girl. As two young private detectives (Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan) hired to take the case get closer to finding her, they discover that nothing is as it seems and more dangerous than they ever thought possible. Also starring Academy Award® winners Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) and Ed Harris (Pollack).
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