If you haven't yet seen this movie you might not want to read this thread!!!

Plot Outline:
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detective freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they finally solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.


I just watched this movie last night. It was directed by Ben Affleck.
His brother Casey starred in it along with Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris etc.

I thought the movie was really good. The mother in the movie really gets you going. I was wondering to those who watched the movie. If you were in the same shoes in the end as the detective (Patrick) would you have made the same choice? Would you have given the child back, or left her where she was?


Personally I think I would have left the child where she was.

Personally I think I would have left the child where she was.

lemme guess they found her to be a prostitute?

lemme guess they found her to be a prostitute?

No, you will have to watch it to find out.

No, you will have to watch it to find out.

Whenever there's a choice that means the mother isn't fit for having a child. In that case the child should always be remanded to state custody and let the courts decide what's the best for the child. Where's the father? Where's the grand parents? I mean there's always a way to solve a problem without getting yourself all emotional about it.

I thought it was an excellent movie, extremely well acted and directed. I never would have guessed Ben Afleck had it in him. Casey A. is wonderful. My favorite actor since Edward Norton. The woman Amy _________, was also excellent and I wish she'd been a little more in the center like her character was in the book.

It was a very tough decision. And I loved the ending's ambiguity. it is not black and white.

We have to take into account how many laws those guys broke, how many people got killed around the enterprise, that they would have gone on and perhaps made mistakes about which children to take, that they betrayed the trust of their jobs and so on. The results of what they were doing are not simply the life that girl will experience. Also the mother was bad enough and negligent enough to have social services come in. The whole enterprise was a short cut. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and being in a hurry and thinking there are only two options and you are God. and those guys ended up in hell because they followed that road.

Yeah I was surprised that Ben Affleck made such a good movie too. I think his brother Casey is a way better actor than him too. I like Ed Norton, he is good too.

I thought how it ended was great too, it left you with mixed feelings. When you see the look on her face when she is sitting on the couch, it breaks your heart. I was quite surprised that the Children's Aid Society wouldn't have stepped in before she was ever sent home. I know what they did was completely wrong and corrupt but I still was swayed at the end into just keeping quiet about the whole thing. That movie really showed us how some ppl just shouldn't be allowed to have children. It also shows that just because you are the Birth Parent doesn't nessessarily mean you should even be allowed to keep a child, just because you gave birth to them.

If you haven't yet seen this movie you might not want to read this thread!!!

Plot Outline:
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detective freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they finally solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.


I just watched this movie last night. It was directed by Ben Affleck.
His brother Casey starred in it along with Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris etc.

I thought the movie was really good. The mother in the movie really gets you going. I was wondering to those who watched the movie. If you were in the same shoes in the end as the detective (Patrick) would you have made the same choice? Would you have given the child back, or left her where she was?


Personally I think I would have left the child where she was.

"I want my kids back part 16" ...with a twist.

No question he did the right thing in calling the police. Where is the evidance that freeman would have given her a better life?

Also, freeman is black his wife is white and out of nowhere they get a blond kid. Someone would have clocked at some point.

Yeah I was surprised that Ben Affleck made such a good movie too. I think his brother Casey is a way better actor than him too. I like Ed Norton, he is good too.

I thought how it ended was great too, it left you with mixed feelings. When you see the look on her face when she is sitting on the couch, it breaks your heart. I was quite surprised that the Children's Aid Society wouldn't have stepped in before she was ever sent home. I know what they did was completely wrong and corrupt but I still was swayed at the end into just keeping quiet about the whole thing. That movie really showed us how some ppl just shouldn't be allowed to have children. It also shows that just because you are the Birth Parent doesn't nessessarily mean you should even be allowed to keep a child, just because you gave birth to them.

I can't say you are wrong.