A fitting place to pick this back up as I have been gone baby gone for quite some time. Does that make me a bad person? Maybe not, bad blogger definitely. Mea Culpa. My apologies.

As for the movie. It is becoming apparent that every ten years or so(Good Will Hunting 1997), Ben Affleck is going to come out of nowhere with a movie that is in every way, pretty darn good. Who knew he had another one in him? Who knew he was going to make his little brother Casey a star and that we would be happy he did? Casey Affleck? Hmm.... ok.

Both Affleck's deliver in this tense potboiler, along with Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, Amy Ryan, Amy Madigan and others. Ben Affleck updates and upgrades his auteur chops, this time not only adapting the screenplay from a an existing novel by Dennis Lehane(Mystic River), but also helming his first major motion picture. Like Mystic River,which garnered multiple Oscar nomination and two wins in 2003, GBG is set in one of the tougher neighborhoods in South Boston. It features Casey Affleck and Michelle Monagahan as a pair of private detectives/live in boyfriend/girlfriend. Despite initial reservations due to certainty that any investigation will bring only bad news to light, they agree to investigate the kidnapping of the 4 year old daughter of a local neer dowell mom. After talking to a series of uncooperative witnesses, including the mom, they soon begin to make headway though even the people who don't know anything aren't talking. But the deeper into this mystery they get, the more they find that the answers are leading to a series of unpalatable choices. They may solve the case but what will it cost them and are they willing to pay it. I

If you don't catch this on the first run, you may well be able to see it when they bring it back around Oscar time.

Labels: Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Gone Baby Gone, Morgan Freeman, Mystic River