Gone

2012 Thriller

A young woman (Amanda Seyfried) prepares to confront the assailant who previously abducted her, and who has now sought vengeance by kidnapping her sister in this thriller from director Heitor Dhalia. Jill (Seyfried) lives a quiet life, yet one marked by a severe anxiety that the man who once threw her in a ditch to die was going to come back and finish the job. When her sister Molly (Emily Wickersham) goes missing, Jill heads to the police, but no one will listen to her, save for Detective Hood (Wes Bentley), who might or might not have his own reasons for lending a hand. As time runs out, Jill becomes more frantic and takes to desperate measures, putting the police on her trail as she tries to put an end to her nightmare once and for all. Jennifer Carpenter, Joel David Moore, and Michael Pare co-star in the Summit Entertainment release.

Director: Heitor Dhalia

Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Stan, Wes Bentley, Michael Paré

Reviews

  • Seyfried has spent too much time lately in vehicles that aren't worthy of her, "Red Riding Hood" being the most egregious example. Gone at least takes her seriously - except when, to delicious effect, it doesn't.

    Stephanie Zacharek - Movieline

    26 April 2013

  • Which stinks worse? The absurdly large pile of red herrings Gone amasses? Or the film's sub-Scooby Doo conclusion?

    Clark Collis - Entertainment Weekly

    26 April 2013

  • Hand it to Amanda Seyfried - she seems to have a knack for underplaying unstable characters in a way that lets their nuttiness creep right up on you.

    Tom Russo - The Boston Globe

    26 April 2013

  • Gone starts off as a character study about a woman struggling to regain control of her world in the wake of a horribly intrusive event, but that sort of thing doesn't make for a fun night at the movies, so it quickly concedes to a Hitchcockian "wrong woman" riff, in which sexually motivated abduction serves as the worst MacGuffin in movie history.

    - Boxoffice Magazine

    26 April 2013

  • There's no thrill in Gone because you can see every surprise coming. It lies there flapping like a dying fish. Skip it.

    Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

    26 April 2013

Awards

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