Gone Baby Gone
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Short description
In a working-class neighborhood of Boston, four-year-old Amanda McCready vanishes from the apartment she shares with her mother, Helene, whose drug use and neglect have long been known to those around her. When the police investigation stalls, Amanda's aunt and uncle turn to private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, a young couple who live in the same community and know its streets and its people far better than the authorities do. Captain Jack Doyle assigns two officers, Remy Bressant and Nick Poole, to work alongside them. As the detectives dig into the case, they uncover a side of the city marked by dealers, criminals and worse, and the inquiry forces them toward difficult moral choices.
The film is based on a novel by Dennis Lehane, the author of Mystic River, and was written by Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard. It marked Affleck's first time in the director's chair, ahead of The Town, Argo, Live by Night, Air, The DunKings and Animals. Casey Affleck plays Patrick, with Michelle Monaghan as Angie, Morgan Freeman as Doyle, Ed Harris as Bressant, John Ashton as Poole and Amy Ryan as Helene.
Made for about 19 million US dollars, it took roughly 35 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.6 out of 10 from around 310,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.3 from over 4,300. Film critics gave it 8 out of 10 from 182 reviews, above the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Amy Ryan looked and sounded so convincing in her role that on the first day of filming on location, a security guard mistook her for a fan of one of the actors and refused to let her onto the set. It took the intervention of one of the producers to get her through. The actress was late for filming, but she was convinced that her accent was genuinely Bostonian.
- Boston streets had to be closed for filming, and because of this, Jill Quigg was once unable to get to school to pick up her son after class. Her loud tirades about the filming in particular and the film industry in general attracted the attention of director Ben Affleck, and he offered her a role in the project.
- The film's release in the United Kingdom was scheduled for December 28, 2007, but was postponed for almost six months due to similarities in the plot to the story of four-year-old Madeleine McCann, who disappeared from a hotel room in Portugal on May 3, 2007.
- The cartoon playing in the background at the end of the film is in the public domain, meaning anyone can use it for any purpose. All the animators contacted by the filmmakers refused to allow them to use excerpts from their works in such a controversial scene. The same applies to the RoboDudes brand – the film crew had to invent it, as no children's clothing brand wanted to be associated with pedophilia.
- The film is based on Dennis Lehane’s novel “Gone Baby Gone” (1998) from the “Kenzie/Gennaro” detective series.
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