Gone (2012 film)

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Gone
Gone Poster.jpg
Directed by Heitor Dhalia
Produced by Sidney Kimmel
Dan Abrams
Chris Salvaterra
Tom Rosenberg
Gary Lucchesi
Written by Allison Burnett
Starring Amanda Seyfried
Daniel Sunjata
Jennifer Carpenter
Wes Bentley
Music by David Buckley
Cinematography Michael Grady[1]
Editing by John Axelrad
Studio Lakeshore Entertainment
SKE Entertainment
Distributed by Summit Entertainment
Release date(s)
  • February 24, 2012 (2012-02-24)
Running time 95 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $18,100,189

Gone is a 2012 thriller film written by Allison Burnett, directed by Heitor Dhalia, and starring Amanda Seyfried.

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Plot [edit]

Jillian "Jill" Conway (Amanda Seyfried) lives in Portland, Oregon with her sister Molly (Emily Wickersham), a college student. Much earlier, Jill was kidnapped by a brutal serial killer who put her in a deep vertical hole somewhere in Portland's 5100 acre Forest Park. Jill found human remains, using a bone to stab her abductor and escape from the hole using his rope ladder. When the Portland police are unable to find the hole, and discover that Jill had been committed to a psychiatric institution after her parents' death, they believe the abduction only happened in Jill's head, and send Jill back to a psychiatric facility.

A year later, Jill now works as a waitress in a local diner on the graveyard shift. She and her friend Sharon Ames (Jennifer Carpenter) are generously tipped by a regular customer. Returning home from the shift, Jill is shocked to discover Molly is missing, as she was to take an exam the next day and wanted Jill to wake her early. Molly's boyfriend, Billy (Sebastian Stan), tells her that he hasn't heard from Molly, and later that she didn't show up for the exam. Jill is then convinced the serial killer who took her has now taken Molly.

Police Lt. Ray Bozeman (Michael Paré), Sergeant Powers (Daniel Sunjata), and Detective Erica Lonsdale (Katherine Moennig) dismiss her claims, trying to look for any other excuse for Molly to be missing, believing that it's all in Jill's head. The department's newest homicide detective, Peter Hood (Wes Bentley) tells her that he believes her, giving Jill his card in case she needs any help about the case.

Jill interrogates her neighbors and learns that a van with a locksmith company's name on it parked in front of her house in the middle of the night. Jill finds the company it belongs to and talks to owner Henry Massey (Ted Rooney) and the van's driver, Massey's son Nick (Joel David Moore). When Nick denies any knowledge, Jill breaks into the van, where she finds a receipt from a hardware store for things that the killer would use. Jill holds Nick at gunpoint and forces him to reveal that he allowed a stranger named "Digger" to rent the van during the night.

Nick reports Jill's gun waving behavior to the police, who then want to arrest Jill, as her time in the psychiatric facility means she can not legally possess a weapon. Jill goes to the hardware store, and learns that Digger's real name is Jim McCoy (Socratis Otto), and that he's staying at a rundown hotel. After narrowly eluding the police, Jill heads to the hotel, and breaks into McCoy's room, where she finds duct tape, pet food like that which she was given by her kidnapper, and matches from the diner where she works.

Jill visits Sharon, and learns that McCoy is the generous tipper from the diner. Sharon gives her McCoy's phone number and – after another narrow escape from the police – agrees to let Jill borrow her car. Jill then calls McCoy, who gives her directions to a location in Forest Park. Jill locates a small campsite and finds pictures of McCoy's prior victims, and at the same time, Molly breaks the duct tape off of her hands, and escapes, only to discover she has been concealed under her house all along. Powers and Lonsdale are shocked when they hear Molly's story, finally believing what they have heard from Jill. They also learn Jill is to meet the kidnapper, but don't know where that is to happen.

Jill finds the hole where McCoy held her captive. McCoy emerges from an alcove from within the hole and grabs Jill, pulling her into the hole. He intends to kill her with the piece of bone that Jill stabbed him with in her initial escape. Jill uses her revolver and shoots him, and climbs up then extracts the rope ladder, trapping McCoy in the hole. Jill demands he tell her where Molly is, on a promise of not shooting him again. McCoy admits that Molly has been bound and gagged under their house the whole time, and he only used Molly to lure Jill into the trap. Jill pours a can of kerosene into the hole. As McCoy begs for his life, she says, "I lied.", and drops in a lantern, burning McCoy to death. Jill disposes of the revolver and returns home, finding Molly okay, along with Powers, Lonsdale and Hood. As Molly is terrified at the ordeal, Jill whispers to her that McCoy is dead. When Powers asks about the man she was to meet, Jill (sarcastically) tells the police, "It was all in my head."

Some time later, Bozeman, in his office, receives an anonymous package. Inside are the pictures McCoy had taken of each of his victims, bound and gagged, including Jill herself. An included map indicates the spot in Forest Park where the police can find the hole. Realizing how wrong he was about Jill, Bozeman calls Powers into his office to reopen the missing women's cases.

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Reception [edit]

Critical reception [edit]

The film was not screened for critics and was panned. Gone currently holds a 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 47 reviews from critics; the consensus states "a slow, traditional thriller that is neutered by its script and its rating."[2] On Metacritic, which uses an average of critics' reviews, Gone has a 36/100 rating, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.[3]

Box office [edit]

Gone was a failure at the box office grossing a domestic amount of $11,682,205 and $4,611,955 internationally for a worldwide total of $16,294,160.[4]

International release [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Variety Gone Review by Dennis Harvey
  2. ^ Gone at Rotten Tomatoes
  3. ^ Gone at Metacritic
  4. ^ Gone at Box Office Mojo

External links [edit]

Films directed by Heitor Dhalia
2000s
2010s
  • Gone (2012)
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