Saturday, January 26, 2008

Gone Baby Gone (2007)

Gone Baby Gone is a crime drama adapted and directed by Ben Affleck. The movie is set in Boston, and based on the novel of the same title by Dennis Lehane. It stars Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan, as Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, two private investigators hunting for an abducted four-year-old girl in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester.

Gone Baby Gone begins in Bosaton, with a search for Amanda, a missing child. Patrick Kenzie, (Casey Affleck) a private investigator, is hired by the child's aunt to help the police, under Capt. Doyle (Morgan Freeman), talk to "the neighborhood people" who are reluctant to talk to the police. Kenzie and his girlfriend/partner Angie (Michelle Monaghan) discover that the child's mother, Helene (Amy Ryan), and her boyfriend, "Skinny Ray" have stolen $130,000 from a local drug lord.