Excellent movie! Chilling resemblance to Madeleine McCann!

Rating: 10/10 (25 August 2008)

We saw this excellent and gripping movie today, and for those of us here in the UK, all the more chilling because some of the photographs of the kidnapped little girl, Mandy, bore an uncanny physical resemblance to the high profile photographs released over the past year of four-year-old Maddy, Madeleine McCann, the little British girl who went missing in May 2007 in Praia da Luz, Portugal, and who disappearance remains unsolved. Since coming home, I have discovered, on IMDb Trivia, that the release date here in the UK was delayed for six months (scheduled for 28 December 2007), because of similarity to the case.
We missed the release of the movie when it came out here in June 2008, but caught it today in our local Cineworld's Monday Classic.
Excellently cast, directed, and shot, this movie is not just a story about child abduction, but is about the characters caught up in the convoluted maelstrom. All the performances in the film are superb, with in depth character studies, and the direction maintaining a tone of objectivity and compassion throughout.
Our reaction was, and that of many in the audience, that 'Gone, baby, gone' left one asking oneself, and debating with family and friends, some very tough questions, about the very relevant-to-our-times issues raised in the movie, long after leaving the theatre.