Gone Baby Gone

I liked this one a lot. I found out after the fact that it was based on a book by Dennis Lehane, the same guy who wrote Mystic River, which I also really liked. I did not think this was great at the beginning. The arc of the story did not really devlop the way I expected. There was a bit of a surprise ending and then it turned out that the movie was only about halfway done. Several interesting bits after that as well. I thought Casey Affleck was great. Maybe it was just his Boston accent, but I thought he did a great job. I thought Amy Madigan was also very goos ina supporting role. I thought Ed Harris did a good job playing the grizzled old cop. I might give a best supporting facial hair to Titus Welliver's world class stache. Morgan Freeman was not very good, which is odd because I usually like him. I also liked the questions the movie asked. Is doing the right thing always the right thing, is doing the wrong thing ever acceptable? I think it presented an answer of sorts but did not exactly tell what it thinks about its own answer. I think it was developed by someone who had not spent a lot of time around social workers, as the role that could have been filled by them here was significant, but I'm willing to forgive that. A very good movie, in my opinion.