GONE GIRL (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Ben Affleck (Argo), Rosamund Pike (The World’s End), Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), Tyler Perry (Diary of a Mad Black Woman), Carrie Coon (The Leftovers), Kim Dickens (The Blind Side), Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous), Casey Wilson (The Guilt Trip), Missi Pyle (The Artist), Sela Ward (The Day After Tomorrow), Emily Ratajkowski (film debut), Kathleen Rose Perkins (Episodes), Lisa Banes (Dragonfly), David Clennon (The Thing), Scoot McNairy (Frank), Boyd Holbrook (Behind the Candelabra), Lola Kirke (Another Happy Day)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

David Fincher (The Social Network), director; Gillian Flynn (film debut), writer; Ceán Chaffin (Fight Club), Joshua Donen (The Quick and the Dead), Arnon Milchan (12 Years A Slave) and Reese Witherspoon (Penelope), producers; Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (The Social Network), composers; Jeff Cronenworth (One Hour Photo), cinematographer; Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

On their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Affleck) finds that his wife Amy (Pike) has gone missing. In the media circus that follows as well as facing pressure from the police, Nick’s portrait of a seemingly-happy marriage unravels and raises suspicion from everyone around him that he may have in fact killed her…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

For his next grand cinematic outing, acclaimed director David Fincher adapts Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel and in doing so proves to be the only director in Hollywood brave enough to pull it off.

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THURSDAY 2ND OCTOBER 2014

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