Gentle Hearted Tale Which I Do Hope You'll Seee

Rating: 10/10 (20 October 2010)

The lovely pageant of visual delights that is "Gone, Baby, Gone" will be captivate your eyes and enchant your heart. You'll swoon at the cavalcade of alluring, mysterious, vistas of central steam plants, smokestacks and rooftop ventilators. You'll love the sweeping scenes of 'The Poor Man's Elysian Fields', known to some as Everett, Massachusetts, home to Mrs. & Mrs. Leon Trett, two of many folksy, downhome friends you'll make while on this cinematic tour of The Real People.
Dear and gentle viewer, please be sure to savor the intriguing characters and the gentle-hearted scenes which they bring to life through the magic of their authentic performances.
Wouldn't you love to visit the Filmore Bar, linger in its warm, welcoming glow, and enjoy chatting with always witty, 'Big Dave', and his loyal customers? What better place to seek refuge from the night most inhospitable than Filmore's amberglow ambiance? 'Big Dave' has that natural ability to put anyone immediately at ease and bring out the best in all whom he encounters. What finer company could one seek?
Many have asked these questions, and have yet to receive an answer.
Wouldn't you love to while away an afternoon, enraptured in scintillating conversation, with that post-modern 'Addams Family', Leon and Roberta Trett, and their cryptic upstairs guest, Mr. Corwin Earle? You'll love the way in which Mr. & Mrs. Trett graciously welcome protagonists Patrick Kenzie and 'Bubba' Miller to their traditional Everett home decorated in regal, albeit muted, leitmotif.
Watch closely as lively Roberta demonstrates the finer points of home defense, even as businessman husband, Leon, tends to matters fiduciary with young Kenzie and Bubba, in utmost dignified, efficient manner. Harvard MBA's could learn much by observing Leon and Bubba resolve common 'business disputes' - and as well they should..
What film would be complete without Jill 'Dame Dot Rat' Quigg, who plays the unforgettable 'my best friend across the hall, Dawwwty'? Truly, though Ms. Quigg's on-screen time is brief, doesn't she leave an impression most lasting? Wouldn't you love to have Dot Rat babysit your germy little brood of noisy ankle-biters? Who among us wouldn't?
This, then, without spilling too many beans, is the wonderful, unforgettable essence rare that is "Gone, Baby, Gone", a gentle hearted tale, made special by so many adroit thespians, a film which I do hope you'll see. Thank you.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
'Dr. Z.'
Manasota Key, Florida
20 October, 2010