Everyone wants the truth – until they find it…
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton, Amy Ryan, Amy Madigan, Titus Welliver |
| Director |
Ben Affleck |
| Screenplay | Ben Affleck, Aaron Stockard, from the novel by Dennis Lehane |
| Music | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| Cinematography | John Toll |
| Editing | William Goldenberg |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2007 |
| Produced by | LivePlanet, Miramax Films, The Ladd Company |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Medium
| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Extremely strong and frequent, includes blasphemy |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Very bloody, gory, intense and close up |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Deals with very disturbing themes: the neglect and abduction of young children, drug trafficking and alcohol abuse. |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Diane de Beer  Ben Affleck's directorial debut reveals a maturity far removed from his tabloid fodder acting days. | 15 |  |
| Die Burger Laetitia Pople Affleck broers blink uit. | 15 | |
| Cape Times Michael Phillips Satisfying but formulaic mystery. | 10 |  |
| iAfrica.com Rob Peters It is not easy viewing and will leave you unsettled long after the credits have rolled... | 15 | |
| The Citizen Annette Bayne When is doing the right thing the wrong thing? Ben Affleck tosses the movie-going audience a whole lot of moral ambiguity to mull over in his new gritty drama Gone Baby Gone. | 15 | |
| 24.com Ivan Sadler Well paced and exciting while remaining entirely believable and will make you think. What more could you ask? | 15 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert | 18 | |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson A solid companion piece to Mystic River and David Fincher's Zodiac, Gone Baby Gone is a superior American crime drama. | 15 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli Gone Baby Gone is powerful stuff — a movie that derives its plot twists from moral conundrums rather than from narrative sleight of hand. | 18 | |
| ScreenItBen must certainly get his kudos for delivering a fairly impressive directorial debut with only a smattering of issues that prevent it from being brilliant. | 14 | |
| Metacritic.com 33 critics | 14 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 140 critics | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Ben Affleck proves his directing credentials in this dramatic thriller. | 19 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 11116 Netizens When Keeping It Real Goes Right | 16 | |
Average .. 76% | 15 | |