A cool and rainy day today just perfect for seeing Ben Affleck's film of a novel by Dennis Lehane in which a child goes missing. Two private investigators are engaged to support police efforts to locate her. What they learn deepens an increasingly complex mystery.
This is a terrific story and film. Although the film contains considerable coarse language and violence, it is worth persevering. The story becomes more engrossing as the complexities are revealed and the later twists are quite breathtaking.
Gone Baby Gone is in a similar vein to Mystic River, from another novel by Lehane and those who enjoyed that film will find this one as riveting.
Keen to see this film, although I found Mystic River a bit lengthy.
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