Gone Baby Gone

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Gone Baby Gone directed by Ben Affleck is centered on the kidnapping of a four-year old girl named Amanda. This movie is based in Boston in the Dorchester area. Even though this movie is centered on a kidnapping, there are other crimes being committed. In this film there is abuse of justice, negligence, police corruption, child molestation, drug abuse, and murder. Each of the main characters in this film commits a crime. The main characters in this film are Patrick Kenzie; the private investigator, Jack Doyle; the leader of Crimes Against Children Taskforce, Remy Bressant; a police officer, Lionel McCready; Helene’s brother who is married to Bea McCready and hires Patrick, Helene McCready; Amanda’s mother who uses drugs and alcohol, Corwin Earle; the suspected pedophile and Cheese; the key drug dealer in the area of Dorchester.

Patrick Kenzie is the main character of the film and along with his partner Angie is tasked to find Amanda. Throughout the film Patrick uses unorthodox techniques to try to help in his mission to find Amanda. Unfortunately in his quest to find Amanda, Patrick commits many crimes. In the film, Patrick’s attitude was rebellious. To achieve his goals Patrick does hesitate to employ drastic measures to find information and to get out of serious situations. For example when Patrick was in the bar trying to find information on Helene, he was got involved in a situation with the bar owner and a couple of the bar customers. It seemed as if a scuffle was going to happen until Patrick threatened the individuals with a gun. Patrick didn’t hesitate to kill a person as well. During the film he shot and killed Corwin Earle, the suspected pedophile. He found the murdered body of a child Corwin Earle molested, w...

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Ebert, R. (2007, October 19). Gone Baby Gone :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews. rogerebert.com :: Movie reviews, essays and the Movie Answer Man from film critic Roger Ebert. Retrieved April 25, 2011, from http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071018/REVIEWS/710180303

Gone Baby Gone Movie Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes. (n.d.). Rotten Tomatoes: Movies - New Movie Reviews and Previews!. Retrieved April 25, 2011, from http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

Synopsis for Gone Baby Gone. (n.d.). Retrieved April 25, 2011, from IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452623/synopsis

Winfree, L. T., & Abadinsky, H. (2010). Deterrence and Opportunity Theories. Understanding Crime: Essentials of Criminological Theory (p. 52). Belmont, CA: Linda Schreiber. (Original work published 2003)

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