So in 2007, he went behind the camera with Gone Baby Gone, which he wrote and directed.
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"Gone Baby Gone" isn't always a smooth ride, but it's a challenging, adult thriller guaranteed to foster fierce debate on the way home.
He was able to break out of his pigeonhole with "Gone Baby Gone" and "The Town" as a director of Boston crime stories.
"Argo" marks a change for Affleck, whose first two features as director "Gone Baby Gone" and "The Town" were set in his native Boston.
Swinton also beat Cate Blanchett (as a mid-'60s take on Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There") and Amy Ryan (a difficult working-class mother in "Gone Baby Gone").
He has done serious artistic work, directing acclaimed, slightly gritty films such as The Town and Gone Baby Gone, as well as work on changing his image and personal brand.
For instance, when discussing his collaboration with Morgan Freeman on the set of Gone Baby Gone, Ben noted that Morgan preferred to only do a couple takes of each scene.
While Affleck was fun to watch in popcorn films like Armageddon, the actor showed a keen eye when he got behind the camera in his 2007 directing debut, Gone Baby Gone.
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Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese worked hard to bring Boston to life in "Mystic River" and "The Departed, " respectively, but "Gone Baby Gone" feels more intimately grounded in the dirty streets and scummy bars, and the aggressive pride that comes with them.
"All I know is my baby is gone, " said Derrick Ray, who came to the crash site after viewing Daylan's body at the morgue.
Early the following day, hospital personnel discovered the baby was gone.
All of those things suddenly rear into sharp focus when we hear that somewhere some baby has gone missing, some child has been found dead, some kids went on a shooting spree at a school.
There's a lot more to Pinot Noir--usually with a lot less of nearly everything that has gone into those Baby Huey wines.
Some of the firms hawking goods in the Dragon Mart, such as Haier in kitchen goods and Go Baby in prams, have already gone global.
Added to this is the retirement of government employed baby boomers, whose pension liabilities have gone mostly unfunded.
The North Wales AM said she did not want any other mother to go through what she had gone through after losing her five day old baby in 2009.
The artichoke appetizer had gone awry and came second, but it was worth the wait--boiled to semi-baby-food consistency and with the season's first fava beans. (They stole the show.) I ended with a whole grilled fish and, at the urging of two guys at the next table, Paradiso's prize dessert, sponge cake with dried fruit and sweetened ricotta cheese.
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