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Gone Baby Gone
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.
2007 · Directed by Ben Affleck · 113 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery · Screenplay in the scene database · 7 frames
Tagline
Everyone wants the truth... until they find it.
Plot
In mid June 2006, in Dorchester, Boston, private investigator Patrick Kenzie and his partner and girlfriend Angie Gennaro witness a televised plea by Helene McCready for the return of her abducted four-year-old daughter Amanda, who was last seen with her favorite doll, Mirabelle. Amid the media frenzy, Amanda's aunt Bea and uncle Lionel hire the pair to find her.
Patrick and Angie meet with Boston Police Department detectives Remy Bressant and Nick Poole, who tell them about Corwin Earle, a known child molester whom they consider a suspect. Patrick asks a criminal associate, Bubba, to look for Earle and also discovers that Helene and her boyfriend Ray are addicts and drug mules for local Haitian drug lord Cheese, and had recently stolen $130,000 from him. After finding Ray has been murdered by Cheese's men, Patrick and Angie join Remy and Nick to find Amanda, whom they now believe has been taken by Cheese. Helene reveals she buried the money in Ray’s backyard and tearfully makes Patrick promise he will bring Amanda home alive.
Patrick meets with Cheese and tries to negotiate returning the stolen money in exchange for Amanda, but he denies any involvement in the girl's disappearance. The following day, Captain Jack Doyle reads Patrick a telephone transcript of Cheese calling the station to set up an exchange for the girl. The exchange at a nearby quarry is botched after a gunfight breaks out, and Cheese is killed. It is believed that Amanda fell into the quarry's pond and drowned; Angie retrieves Mirabelle and returns it to Helene. Doyle, whose own daughter was killed years before, takes responsibility for the botched exchange and goes into early retirement.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Ben Affleck, Aaron Stockard
- Cinematography: John Toll
- Edited by: William Goldenberg
- Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
- Production design: Sharon Seymour
- Produced by: Sean Bailey, Alan Ladd Jr., Danton Rissner
Cast
- Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie
- Michelle Monaghan as Angie Gennaro
- Morgan Freeman as Jack Doyle
- Ed Harris as Remy Bressant
- John Ashton as Nick Poole
- Amy Ryan as Helene McCready
- Amy Madigan as Bea McCready
- Titus Welliver as Lionel McCready
- Michael Kenneth Williams as Devin
- Edi Gathegi as Cheese
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Miramax, The Ladd Company
- Budget: $19,000,000
- Box office: $34,600,000
- Themes: robbery, corruption, based on novel or book, police, kidnapping, boston, massachusetts, blackmail, detective, drug addiction, murder
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