Almost perfect crime...gone bad!

Rating: 9/10 (29 May 2015)

This thriller is based on Gillian Flynn's novel. Not a chick flick; not a thinking man's thriller...but a well acted, well written unsettling drama that follows Nick Dunne(Ben Affleck)being dogged by police and determined media as he becomes the prime suspect in his wife's disappearance. On their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick reports that his high profile wife, Amy(Rosamund Pike), known to thousands as the Amazing Amy, is missing.
Amy has lived her life in the spotlight as author of children's books supposedly paralleling her own childhood life. Well-to-do parents always seeming to pull the strings on the stunning woman's life and never a fan of the man she married. Amy is smart as she is beautiful and plays a game leaving clues for her husband to find something special in celebrating their anniversary. These clues become damning evidence that Nick is not actually a grieving husband.
Nick's calmness under pressure from the media frenzy and hounding police detectives begins to crack. In seeps the darker side of the couple's so-believed blissful union. His sister Margo(Carrie Coon), co-owner of their bar, is his only support. Highly recognized attorney Tanner Bolt(Tyler Perry), no slouch when it comes to the media, becomes Nick's defender. Deceit and anger comes to the forefront and Bolt is determined to spin the media on its heals.
Don't let me go any further. An almost perfect crime comes unraveled. Most of the filming is done in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. There is strong sexual content, nudity and bloody violence earning an R rating. The astute cast includes: Kim Dickens, Neil Patrick Harris, Missy Pyle, Patrick Fugit, Emily Ratajowski and Sela Ward.