Gone Baby Gone

Gone Baby Gone
2007 Dir. Ben Affleck

Originally I was planning to write about Good will hunting this week being that it is my favorite
“Boston in the fall” movie. However Last night I watched a film that forced me to change that plan, Gone Baby Gone Is a movie that impressed me so much that I couldn’t wait to write about it, and being the some of the people behind Good Will Hunting are also responsible for this flick I have decided that this is a reasonably justified  swap.
Gone Baby Gone is Ben Affleck’s (a man who apparently loves Boston more than any other city as of the three movies that he has written or directed so far all of them have been set in the Boston area) directorial debut and it features the All-star cast of:
Casey Affleck (Ben’s younger brother and frequent collaborator), Morgan Freeman (a Man who has literally played God), and Ed Harris (frequent action movie villain and occasional fictional astronaut).

Gone Baby Gone is a Boston crime film that focuses on a missing child case. Casey Affleck plays a private investigator, Patrick Kenzie, hired by the family of this missing girl to take a deeper look into the case. Patrick is a private investigator so he works outside of law and has a lot of connections in the sketchier sides of Boston, the drug dealers and the dive bars; Patrick knows that the people he has access to would never talk to the police even to help find a missing child. The plot thickens as missing money is introduced and then the film takes off on a complex series of twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat trying to guess what might happen next.

I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes either a good suspenseful crime thriller full of twists, or the city of Boston, Affleck can’t go three scenes without reminding the audience where the film is set with some sort of iconic landmark.