Gone Baby Gone [Blu-ray]

Buy This Item Gone Baby Gone [Blu-ray] by Miramax Home Entertainment  Available from Amazon  $23.95  on 8-10-2008     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). Reader Reviews I was at first put off by this film's setting. I immediately saw it was going to take place on the seamy side of Boston, among druggies and other low-lives. Since I'm more a fan of the drawing room mystery genre, I felt a big chore coming on with this film. Also, it was a challenge understanding some of the heavy Boston accents. Several of the actors here seem to have been coached to assume truly over-the-top dialects, thicker than any I've encountered among real Boston natives. This was probably done to give the movie a strikingly distinctive regional flavor. But I actually had to turn on the DVD's English subtitles for a while - until my ear got better attuned to the speech and until some of the lead actors such as Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman came on the scene. Their back-stories provided them with different upbringings and allowed them to speak a more standard Midwestern English. So again, between the unsympathetic characters and the difficult language, I initially resigned myself to watching this film through just to get my money's worth and to avoid being a quitter. But before I knew it, I found myself genuinely engrossed. Even if your usual preferred material is Agatha Christie rather than the Lehane book this is based on, I think you will also be drawn into real involvement with and appreciation of this movie. Then you'll want to go back and listen to Ben Affleck's Director's Commentary. At first sounding a little low-key and sluggish, it also soon winds up into fascinating insight. Like me, I bet you missed that wink between characters signaling unexpected complexities to the plot. "Gone Baby" would be a good movie to view with friends, because it will probably provoke lively discussion afterwards - with your friends falling into two opposing camps, each with its reasons. A movie that starts out appearing to be about uniformly dreary lives, will end up inspiring you to take sides, and to remember and challenge long after the credits have rolled.

Gone Baby Gone [Blu-ray] Available from Amazon Price: $23.95 Updated on 8-10-2008.

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