Gone Girl (2014)
Gone Girl is a 2014 mystery movie directed by David Fincher, with a running time of 2h 29m. It stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike and Neil Patrick Harris.
When Amy Dunne vanishes from her Missouri home on the morning of her fifth wedding anniversary, the cameras turn on her husband, Nick, a laid-off writer whose flat affect reads as guilt on the evening news. David Fincher directs Gillian Flynn's adaptation of her own bestseller as a cold, exacting study of marriage as performance and the press as a court of its own. Ben Affleck plays Nick opposite Rosamund Pike, whose Amy is the story's real engine. Precise, glacial, and quietly vicious, it treats a modern American couple as a crime scene.
Quick answers
What is Gone Girl about?
When Amy Dunne vanishes from her Missouri home on the morning of her fifth wedding anniversary, the cameras turn on her husband, Nick, a laid-off writer whose flat affect reads as guilt on the evening news. David Fincher directs Gillian Flynn's adaptation of her own bestseller as a cold, exacting study of marriage as performance and the press as a court of its own. Ben Affleck plays Nick opposite Rosamund Pike, whose Amy is the story's real engine. Precise, glacial, and quietly vicious, it treats a modern American couple as a crime scene.
When was Gone Girl released?
Gone Girl was released on 1 October 2014.
How long is Gone Girl?
Gone Girl runs 2h 29m.
Who made Gone Girl?
Gone Girl was directed by David Fincher.
Where can I watch Gone Girl?
Gone Girl is available on Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch Gone Girl
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Buy: Amazon, Fandango at Home
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Cast
- Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne
- Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne
- Neil Patrick Harris as Desi Collings
- Tyler Perry as Tanner Bolt
- Carrie Coon as Margo Dunne
- Kim Dickens as Detective Rhonda Boney
- Patrick Fugit as Officer James Gilpin
- David Clennon as Rand Elliott
- Lisa Banes as Marybeth Elliott
- Missi Pyle as Ellen Abbott
- Emily Ratajkowski as Andie Fitzgerald
- Casey Wilson as Noelle Hawthorne
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A few thoughts on Gone Girl
Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska sets the same bleak, small-town American dread to music. For twisty domestic murder, Agatha Christie's Crooked House hides its killer inside one family. Telltale's The Wolf Among Us hands you the detective's job in a world just as morally soured, and Death Note turns a battle of two calculating minds into a slow chess match.
Marriage thrillers where the spouse is the suspect
Gone Girl turns a fifth anniversary into a crime scene, with Nick's every flinch read as guilt on live television. If that chilly portrait of a marriage gone rotten hooked you, these domestic thrillers keep the danger inside the house, where the person across the breakfast table is the one you should fear most.
Twisty crime stories built on unreliable narrators
Rosamund Pike's Amy makes Gone Girl a study in the story a narrator wants you to believe. These picks share that pleasure of the pulled rug, from a memory that runs backward to detective puzzles and death games where the truth arrives only once someone has rewritten it for you.
Whodunits that hide the killer in plain sight
Beneath its media satire, Gone Girl runs on the clean mechanics of a classic mystery, clues seeded early and paid off late. These Agatha Christie novels and murder-house films work the same puzzle, gathering suspects under one roof and daring you to spot the liar before the reveal lands.
Noir mysteries you steer yourself
Gone Girl treats investigation as a game of shifting sympathy, and these interactive crime stories hand you the controls. You question suspects, follow bad hunches, and live with the fallout, chasing the same unease Fincher builds as certainty about who did what keeps sliding out from under you.