Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 172
Fresh: 162 | Rotten: 10
Ben Affleck proves his directing credentials in this gripping dramatic thriller, drawing strong performances from the excellent cast and bringing working-class Boston to the screen.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 38 | Rotten: 3
Ben Affleck proves his directing credentials in this gripping dramatic thriller, drawing strong performances from the excellent cast and bringing working-class Boston to the screen.
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Ben Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Gone, Baby, Gone stars Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie, a private investigator from working-class Boston who takes on a case involving a kidnapped girl. The girl's aunt begs Patrick to take the case because he has connections to criminal Boston that the police do not. He agrees and along with his partner, Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan), they uncover a web of corruption that threatens the relationship between the two. Ed Harris and Morgan
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Michelle Monaghan
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Morgan Freeman
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Ed Harris
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John Ashton
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Amy Ryan
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Amy Madigan
Bea McCready -
Titus Welliver
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Michael Kenneth Williams
Devin -
Edi Gathegi
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All Critics (172) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (162) | Rotten (10) | DVD (15)
Gone Baby Gone is an argument for obligation over accommodation, the absolute over the contingent.
Top CriticFlawed but impressive.
Mr. Affleck is laying the foundation, brick by brick, for a promising new career.
Ben directs Casey in Gone Baby Gone, and it's a career highlight for both of them.
The unconvincing genre conventions in Gone Baby Gone are at odds with its authentic, lived-in atmosphere, but no one can say that Affleck hasn't looked into the depths, and the movie ends on a resonantly ambiguous note.
Casey's big brother has made a tough, taut mystery.
This is A-grade stuff: well-plotted, unpredictable and grounded in reality from start to finish.
As an actor, Ben Affleck might be a supporting player trapped in a leading man's body, but as a filmmaker he's an auspicious talent.
A truly stellar directorial debut by Ben Affleck.
Because it mostly succeeds, now that [Affleck's] got this and that good under-seen performance in Hollywoodland under his belt, he can hold his head high again.
A tense meditation on morality in the modern world, Gone Baby Gone is a superb crime thriller featuring a star performance from Casey Affleck. If crime drama is your thing, it really doesn't get much better than this.
The Affleck boys finally earn their stripes as cinematic artists
Affleck proved that his Good Will Hunting moment wasn't an aberration, and he also showed that he didn't need Matt Damon in tow to make a great movie.
Director Ben Affleck displays sensitivity to his story's thematic undercurrents, but he hasn't yet developed the authorial voice needed to enliven the conventional plotting.
After seeing Affleck's directorial debut Gone Baby Gone, I can honestly say that he has finally found his true calling in Hollywood.
Great job, everyone! The ride overall is solid and gripping, and very enjoyable despite the glimpses at the horrors of which the human animal is capable.
Back, baby, back. An excellent police procedural and a personal triumph for Ben Affleck, steering his younger brother to a performance that deserved louder applause from gong juries.
A powerful, provocative and excellently acted thriller that could literally have been torn from today's headlines.
A superior, haunting thriller of abduction, deception and ethical dilemma with a sobering ending - a moral quandary that demands strong debate outside the cinema.
An unusually patient approach to storytelling sets Ben Affleck's directorial debut apart, as he allows events to unfurl gradually.
To this day, six months after seeing the film for the first time, I still do not know the answer to one of the biggest moral dilemmas I have ever seen. Casey Affleck's character has to make a decision at the end of this film that just blew my mind.
The first serious foray into directing by Ben Affleck, who reinforces his creative talents by good storytelling and dense mood establishment. Brother Casey Affleck threatens to overshadow his sibling in the acting department.
...a far more accomplished and flat-out compelling piece of work than anybody could've expected.
The structure and layered storytelling make Gone Baby Gone richly satisfying. [Blu-Ray review]
Audience Reviews for Gone Baby Gone
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- Remy Bressant: [about Patrick] Half the guys he knows are degenerates.
- Patrick Kenzie: Yeah, you know what the other half are?
- Remy Bressant: What?
- Patrick Kenzie: Cops. Don't hold it against me.
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- Cheese: Because she's gone, baby. Gone.
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- Remy Bressant: Kids forgive, they don't judge, they turn the other cheek, and what do they get for it?
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- Angie Gennaro: Patrick if you do this, I will hate you. And I don't want to.
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- Patrick Kenzie: He lied to me. Now I can't think of one reason big enough for him to lie about that's small enough not to matter.
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- Patrick Kenzie: Cheese, if you ever disrespect her again like that, I'm gonna pull your fuckin' card, okay? So you're saying you didn't do it, fine. We'll take your money, and we'll be on our way. When it turns out you're lying, I'm gonna spend every nickel of that money to fuck you up. I'm gonna bribe cops to go after you, I'm gonna pay guys to go after your weak fuckin' crew, and I'm gonna tell all the guys I know that you're a C.I. and a rat, and I know a lot of people. And after that, you're gonna wish you listened to me, 'cause your shitty pool hall crime syndicate headquarters is gonna get raided, and your doped-up bitches are gonna get sent back to Laos, and this fuckin' retard right here is gonna be testifying against you for a reduced sentence, while you're gettin' cornholed in your cell by a gang of crackers. 'Cause from what I've heard, the guys that get sent up Concord for killing kids, life's a motherfucker.
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