Gone Baby Gone

This film too is about a missing child (like Freedomland), but the treatment is totally different. Here the private detective engaged to investigate uncovers several shocking facts about the mother of the missing child, about the brother who colluded with a investigating police officer to kidnap the child to get hold of the huge drug money from the hapless mother. But things go awry and the private investigator is, for a time, left to conclude that the child had died. Eventually, however, he discovers the complicity of the mother's brother, the police officer as well as of the otherwise honest and good Police officer who actually adopts the kidnapped girl thinking that he has rescued the girl from her drug-addict of a mother. The good police officer pleads with the private detective to let the girl be with him because it is good for the girl's future, but the detective makes the hard decision of uniting the 'lost' child with her addict-mother, in the process sending two of the participants involved to jail and one to his death. The decision of the private detective to reunite the child with her undependable mother also results in the loss of his dear girl friend who disagrees with his decision and walks out on him. At moments the movie sounds like an Indian movie where fierce arguments about the ethics of the issue are exchanged. We liked the movie on the whole though.