Gone Baby Gone

It's standard practice in Hollywood to mock Ben Affleck. He and his pal Matt Damon got famous at the same time for writing Good Will Hunting , and both have worked in successful movies with ensemble casts, Affleck most notably in Shakespeare In Love and Damon in the Ocean's Eleven series, but when it comes to being the name above the title guy, Damon can point to The Bourne Identity and the sequels and Affleck is stuck with Gigli . Here's something Ben Affleck has done that Matt Damon has yet to do. He's directed a really good film. Gone Baby Gone is an adaptation of a novel by Dennis Lehane. Lehane also wrote Mystic River , which was turned into a movie by director Clint Eastwood. While he sets most of his own novels in the Boston area, Lehane wrote three scripts for the HBO series The Wire , which is set in Baltimore. Ben... [read full story]                    

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