Ben Affleck
3 titles · american genre
Boston crime stories, told by a director who grew up nearby. A four-year-old girl disappears and her aunt hires two private detectives in Gone Baby Gone. The Town is set in Charlestown, a neighbourhood that turns out armed robbers generation after generation. Argo goes to Tehran in 1979, where six Americans escape the embassy takeover and need a way out of the country.
Signature
- Working-class Boston neighbourhoods (Gone Baby Gone, The Town).
- Crime as a family and neighbourhood inheritance.
- A true-story escape thriller (Argo).
- Tight, classical genre craftsmanship.
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