<P> Gone Baby Gone is a 2007 American neo-noir mystery drama film directed by Ben Affleck . In his feature - length directorial debut, Affleck cowrote the screenplay with Aaron Stockard based on the novel Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane . The film stars Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan as two private investigators hunting for a little girl who was abducted from the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester . The supporting cast includes Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris and Amy Ryan . </P> <P> Released on October 19, 2007, the film was well - received by critics and grossed $34.6 million worldwide against its $19 million budget . Ben Affleck was named Breakthrough Filmmaker of year by many critics awards, and Amy Ryan received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress . </P> <P> Boston P.I. Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and his partner / girlfriend Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) witness a televised plea by a woman named Helene McCready (Amy Ryan) for the return of her missing daughter Amanda, who was abducted with her favorite doll "Mirabelle". Patrick and Angie are then hired by the child's aunt Beatrice (Amy Madigan) to find Amanda . Using his connections in the Boston crime underground, Patrick discovers that Helene and her boyfriend "Skinny Ray" (Sean Malone) were drug mules for a local Haitian drug lord named Cheese (Edi Gathegi) and had recently stolen over $130,000 from him . After tracking down Ray and discovering he has been murdered by Cheese's men, Patrick and Angie join police detectives Remy Bressant (Ed Harris) and Nick Poole (John Ashton) in investigating the case . Patrick meets with Cheese and tries to negotiate the return of Cheese's stolen money for Amanda, but Cheese initially denies his involvement in the girl's disappearance . Police Captain Jack Doyle (Morgan Freeman) later reads Patrick a telephone transcript of the drug lord calling into the station to set up an exchange for Amanda . The exchange at a nearby quarry in Quincy is botched after a gunfight breaks out, killing Cheese and his men . It is believed that Amanda fell in the quarry and drowned in the confusion; her doll is retrieved from the water and returned to Helene . Doyle, whose own daughter was killed years before, takes responsibility for the death and goes into early retirement following public outcry over the mishap . </P> <P> Two months later, a seven - year - old boy is abducted in Everett and Patrick receives information that the boy was taken by a known child molester . After entering the suspect's house and finding evidence of the abducted boy, Patrick returns with Remy and Nick late at night to rescue him . A shootout ensues with the residents and Nick is lethally wounded . Patrick enters the house and finds the boy's dead body; he then shoots the surrendering child molester in the back of the head in a fit of rage . Trying to alleviate Patrick's guilt, Remy confides that he once planted evidence on someone with the help of "Skinny Ray"--whom he had initially told Patrick he didn't know . After Nick's funeral, Patrick speaks to a police officer, who tells him that Remy had been asking about the drug lord's stolen money before the drug lord knew it was missing . Patrick then questions Beatrice's husband Lionel (Titus Welliver) in a bar and pieces together that Lionel and Remy had conspired to stage a fake kidnapping in order to take the drug money for themselves and to teach Amanda's neglectful mother Helene a lesson . At that point, Remy (trying to cover for his earlier mistake) enters the bar wearing a latex mask and holding a shotgun, staging a robbery to interrupt the conversation . Patrick realizes Remy plans to kill him and Lionel to keep them quiet, but the bartender shoots Remy twice in the back . Remy flees and is pursued by Patrick to the rooftop of a nearby building, where he succumbs to his wounds . </P>

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