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REVIEW: Amanda Seyfried Makes One Crazy-Looking -- But Sympathetic -- Blythe Doll in Gone

REVIEW: Amanda Seyfried Makes One Crazy-Looking -- But Sympathetic -- Blythe Doll in Gone

In the vigilante fantasy Gone, Amanda Seyfried plays Jill, a young Portland woman who can’t shake the memory of her abduction a year ago. She managed to slip through the guy’s clutches – he’d been holding her at the bottom of a deep pit in a sprawling local park – but the local cops, after finding no evidence of said hole (it’s a very big park), decided she made the whole thing up. Then one night Jill’s sister (Emily Wickersham) goes missing in a similar fashion: When Jill goes to the cops for help, they eye her warily, all except newbie detective Wes Bentley, who purrs at her creepily, in a red-herring sort of way.
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