Gone Baby Gone (2007)

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Ben Affleck Director

A young girl is kidnapped and a rookie private investigator is determined to get her back.

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Casey Affleck Patrick Kenzie
Michelle Monaghan Angie Gennaro
Ed Harris Remy Bressant
Morgan Freeman Jack Doyle
Amy Ryan Helene McCready
John Ashton Nick Poole
Amy Madigan Bea McCready
Michael K. Williams Devin
Edi Gathegi Cheese
Mark Margolis Leon Trett
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Plot Summary

 Patrick & Angie
 Patrick & Angie
Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) are
 two private detective partners who also happen to be seeing each other.  A
 young girl named Amanda is reported missing along with the favorite doll "Mirabelle," and Patrick and Angie witness the live televised plea of Amanada's mother, Helen McCready (Amy Ryan).   Amanda's Aunt, Beatrice (Amy Madigan), hires Patrick and Angie to find Amanda, and they discover that Helene and her boyfriend "Skinny Ray" (Sean Malone), had stolen a large amount of money from a local drug kingpin named "Cheese" (Edi Gathegi.) Ray is found murdered in his apartment, so Patrick and Angie join the police detectives investigating the case, Remy Bressant (Ed Harris) and Nick Poole (John Ashton). Together they arrange to pay Cheese back his money in a trade for   Amanda. 
 Interrogation
 Interrogation
Captain Jack Doyle (Morgan Freeman) shows Patrick a telephone transcript of the drug lord setting up an exchange for Amanda. The deal goes down at a nearby rock quarry in Quincy, but it appears to be an ambush . Amanda's doll is found floating in the river over a cliff located in the quarry. The doll is returned to Helene and it is believed that Amanda died in the botched exchange.Doyle, whose own daughter was killed years before, takes responsibility for the death and goes into early retirement.
 

Another child is abducted in Everett two months later. Patrick gets word that the boy was taken by a known child molester named, Corwin Earle (Matthew Maher.) 
 Saving the boy
 Saving the boy
Patrick finds evidence of the boys presence in Corwin's house after showing up with his friend Bubba (Slaine,) a petty dope dealer, to make a drug deal. Patrick returns later that night accompanied by Remy and Nick, to infiltrate and rescue the boy. A shootout occurs which leaves Nick dead. Patrick enters the house and corners Corwin in an upstairs bathroom. There he finds the boy dead in a bathtub. Outraged, Patrick kills Corwin witha shot to the head.

One night while discussing the events that took place at Corwin's house. Remy reveals to Patrick that he once planted evidence on someone with the help of "Skinny Ray." 
 Guilt
 Guilt
Remy had initially told Patrick he didn't know Ray, when Patrick first met Remy. After Nick's funeral, Patrick speaks to a police officer, who tells him that Remy had been asking about the drug lord's stolen money before the drug lord knew it was missing. Patrick interrogates Beatrice's husband Lionel (Titus Welliver) in a bar and comes to the conclusion that Lionel and Remy had conspired to stage a fake kidnapping so they could take the drug money for themselves and to save Amanda from Helene's drug addeled parenting. Remy busts into the bar, wearing a mask and holding a shotgun, and stages a robbery. 
      Closing in
      Closing in
Remy is actually planning to kill Lionel before he reveals to much, but is already too late. Remy points the shotgun at Lionel's head, but is shot in the back twice by the bartender. Remy flees and is pursued by Patrick to the rooftop of a nearby building, and dies.


While the police question Patrick about Remy's death, Patrick discovers that the department had never received a phone transcript like the one that Doyle had shown him that arranged the aumbush/exchange. Patrick and Angie drive to Doyle's home, where Patrick finds Amanda living happily with Doyle and his wife.
 Doyle & Amanda
 Doyle & Amanda
 Patrick threatens to turn Doyle in and break the whole scandal wide open, but Doyle tries to convince him that Amanda is better off living with them than with Helene. Patrick discusses this with Angie, and she threatens to leave Patrick if he turns Doyle in, because she thinks Amanda would be better off with the Doyles as well. The police arrive, Doyle is arrested, Amanda's return to her mother highly televised, and Patrick and Angie break up.

Months later, Patrick visits Amanda as Helene is prepare to go on a date with some guy who called her after seeing her on TV over her daughter's disappearance. Helene tells Patrick that Beatrice has been forbidden to visit and is upset about her husband's arrest.
      Going out
      Going out
 Helene doesn't have a babysitter for Amanda, but tells Patrick that Dottie (Jill Quigg), a friend of hers, will watch her. Patrick volunteers to watch Amanda,and Helene thanks him before rushing out the door. Patrick asks Amanda about Mirabelle, and Amanda tells him the doll's name is "Annabelle." Helene did not even know the name of her daughter's favorite toy. 
 

Critical Response

 
  • Peter Travers of Rolling Stone raved "The brothers Affleck both emerge triumphant in this mesmerizing thriller."
  • The New York Post called it "a twisty, morally ambiguous and satisfying neo-noir.
  • 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."
  • In the U.K., Gone Baby Gone received extremely positive reviews, including a five-star rating from Chris Tookey of the Daily Mail.

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Name Gone Baby Gone
US Release Oct. 19, 2007
UK Release June 6, 2008
AUS Release April 17, 2008
Runtime 114
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Rating R
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