2007 · thriller · crime
Gone Baby Gone
Directed by Ben Affleck1h 53m2007
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.
Our read: Gone Baby Gone (2007) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded thriller · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- cold
- twisty
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