Based on a novel by Dennis Lehane, co-written by Aaron Stockard (also The Town). Good thriller, steeped in local Boston colour - or grime, if you like - about two private investigators trying to track down missing girl, finding a whole mess of deceit.
Ben hopefully didn't direct Casey Affleck too much as he's clearly the better actor*, Michelle Monaghan we've just seen in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. With Ed Harris, John Ashton, Morgan Freeman, Amy Ryan (the mother), Amy Madigan (the sister). Titus Welliver, Michael Kenneth Williams (from The Wire, who just died in September aged 54), Edi Gathegi.
Classily put together by John Toll and William Goldenberg, with local detail; music by Harry Gregson-Williams.
Nice that it ends not on a thrillery moment but an ethical dilemma.
* Though, having said that, cut forward to The Tender Bar...
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