Gone Baby Gone (DVD)

Presenting a bleak insight into the criminal world of America, Gone Baby Gone tells the story of a little girl being abducted from an area rife with crime and drug abuse. Four year old Amanda is often left home alone, with only her uncle and aunt upstairs to keep an eye out. Her mother is a hostile drug addict who seems happy to abandon the child at will. Patrick and his partner Angie specialise in missing persons cases, but aren't keen to get involved with a missing child case. They have largely avoided such cases, and muse that they dont want to find the bones of a dead child, or a child who has been abused for 3 days. Amanda's aunt engages their ...  Read the complete review

When little Amanda goes missing, there is a great deal of concern for her safety, although her addict mother doesn't initially seem all that upset. A pair of private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, are called in by relatives to help with the case - the idea being that they know the local 'hood better than the police. All investigations seem to lead to a brick wall, however, and eventually Patrick and Angie are forced to concede that Amanda is probably dead. Having become personally involved, however, they cannot stay away from the case for too long. Will they ever find Amanda? And if they do, will she be dead or alive? As the film is directed ...  Read the complete review

I am not one to generally watch the Oscar nominated films because I usually don't like them that much and don't understand the fuss about them, which usually makes me feel a bit stupid actually. I've managed to not see most of the big films for this years Oscars, but couldn't quite resist the lure of Ben Affleck's directorial debut 'Gone, Baby, Gone'. I have heard such good things about it, I couldn't help but rent it out to watch despite a subject matter I wouldn't usually touch with a bargepole. Private Investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro are called in when a young girl, Amanda McCready goes missing from her home late one night. The local police ...  Read the complete review

Gone Baby Gone 2007 - Film review only ********************************* Directed by - Ben Affleck ******************* CAST ***** Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie Michelle Monaghan as Angie Gennaro Morgan Freeman as Capt. Jack Doyle Amy Ryan as Helene McCready Ed Harris as Detective sergeant Remy Bressant John Ashton as detective Nick Poole **************************************************** As me and my wife were looking through the Virgin Media on demand movies on Saturday night we came across this movie which sounded quite good and although we had not heard of it before we ...  Read the complete review

- Cast & Crew - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452623/fullcredits - Plot - Two local, young Boston detectives agree to investigate the disappearance of a young girl called Amanda, which they use their knowledge of the local community and some of the more unsavoury people who live there, to try to figure out who may have taken her and why, as her relatives are desperate to get her back. The more they find out, the darker things get and they share information with the police, in the hope that they can track down the person who has her, before she gets hurt. However, its been a number of weeks since she initially went ...  Read the complete review