Gone Baby Gone (2007 First Feature)
The second episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2007 features our pick for a notable filmmaking debut, Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone. Directed and co-written by Ben Affleck and starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Ed Harris, Amy Ryan and Morgan Freeman, Gone Baby Gone was Affleck’s first feature film as a writer and director, launching a whole new phase of his career.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gone-baby-gone-2007), Mike D’Angelo in Las Vegas Weekly (https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/archive/2007/oct/18/the-comeback-of-the-year/), and Claudia Puig in USA Today (https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2007-10-18-gone-baby-gone_N.htm).
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