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DVD : Gone Baby GoneIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $29.99 Amazon.com's Price: $14.99 You Save: $15.00 (50%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Buena Vista Home Video EAN: 0786936727487 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Label: MIRAMAX Manufacturer: MIRAMAX Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MIRAMAX Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 12, 2008 Running Time: 114 minutes Studio: MIRAMAX Theatrical Release Date: October 12, 2007 Sales Rank: 1274 MPN: DISD53738D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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). Amazon.com: For his initial offering as director, Ben Affleck returns to the site of his first Oscar: South Boston. (He and Matt Damon shared the award for Good Will Hunting.) Hot on the heels of his moving turn in Hollywoodland, Affleck's Dennis Lehane adaptation marks one of the more seamless actor-to-filmmaker transitions in recent years. Ostensibly, a procedural about the search for a missing child, class and corruption emerge as his primary concerns. First off, there's low-rent private eye Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck, equally adept in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford). Then there's the girl's drug mule mother, Helene (Amy Ryan, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead). She and Patrick grew up in Dorchester, but he took a different path, setting up an agency with his girlfriend, Angie (Michelle Monaghan). Helene's aunt, Bea (Amy Madigan), hires the duo to augment the investigation, and they team up with Captain Doyle (Morgan Freeman) and Detective Bressant (Madigan's husband, Ed Harris). The authorities don't appreciate the interference, but Patrick knows how to get the local populace talking, and he soon finds there's more to the story than anyone could possibly imagine. Hard-hitting, but never soft-headed, the evocative end result proves Affleck has a flair for this directing thing and that his little brother can carry a major motion picture with aplomb. Gone Baby Gone belongs on the list of great Boston crime dramas, along with The Departed and Mystic River, Clint Eastwood’s take on Lehane. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Average Rating:
 Rating: - The Affleck boys come of ageWhen 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 ... Read More Rating:  - strong and gritty--with quite an endingGone 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 ... Read More Rating:  - It's OK.It's OK. Don't put it at the top , or bottom, of your list. Rating:  - Awful acting, barely competent directingFirst 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 ... Read More Rating: - Why, Ben, Why?!I'll start off by saying that I am a HUGE Dennis Lehane fan. He's not my favorite author (Harlan Coben is), but he's definitely in my top 5. I can't say that I like all of his books, but in my opinion "Gone Baby Gone" is one of his better ones. Usually, I don't like book to movie adaptations, as I tend to think that there's no way that a movie can supersede the book that it's based upon, but there's been a few exceptions that I can think of right off the top of my head. "Shawshank Redemption", for example, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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