Gone Girl (2014)
8.1 IMDb
88 Rotten Tomatoes

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Gone Girl follows Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck), whose seemingly ordinary fifth wedding anniversary turns into a nightmare when his wife, Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike), mysteriously disappears. As police Detective Rhonda Boney (Kim Dickens) investigates, Nick's increasingly uncomfortable behavior, conflicting stories, and the media frenzy surrounding the case make him the obvious suspect. But the story gradually reveals that the Dunnes' marriage is far more complicated than the perfect relationship presented to the public. Amy's carefully constructed identity, Nick's secrets, former lovers, and people from the couple's past all become pieces of a much larger psychological puzzle. Margo Dunne (Carrie Coon), Nick's twin sister, provides one of the few people willing to stand beside him, while Desi Collings (Neil Patrick Harris) and celebrity lawyer Tanner Bolt (Tyler Perry) become important to the unfolding story.

  • Release Date: October 3, 2014
  • Director: David Fincher
  • Genre: Psychological , Thriller , Mystery , Crime , Drama , Suspense
  • Duration: 2 hours 29 minutes (149 minutes)
  • Language: English
  • Starring: Kim Dickens — Detective Rhonda Boney
  • Box Office: $370.9 million worldwide
  • Where To Watch: Netflix

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One of the most interesting aspects of Gone Girl is that Gillian Flynn wrote the screenplay herself, allowing the film adaptation to preserve many of the novel’s central psychological ideas. The movie was also notable for casting Ben Affleck as Nick, a role that deliberately plays with the idea of how a person’s public image can affect how strangers interpret their behavior. Rosamund Pike’s performance as Amy earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. IMDb also records a fun behind-the-scenes story involving Affleck changing a camera lens setting by an almost imperceptible amount as a bet that Fincher would not notice—Fincher noticed.

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The story has a particularly interesting connection to classic mystery and crime-fiction traditions. Rather than presenting the disappearance as a straightforward detective mystery, Flynn structures Gone Girl around unreliable perspectives and deliberately misleading information, making the audience repeatedly reconsider what it thinks it knows.