Gone (film)

Gone is a 2012 Psychological Thriller starring Amanda Seyfried.

Jill Conway (Seyfried.) is a young woman living in Portland with her sister Molly. A year ago Jill was apparently abducted by an unidentified man who kept her in a hole in the woods. Due to her clear emotional instability and total absence of evidence for her abductor the police suspect she may have fantasized the whole thing. When Jill comes home one morning to find her sister unaccountably missing she immediately assumes her abductor has struck again and kidnapped her sister... but the police and her friends question her judgement.

No relation to the book series of the same name.

Tropes used in Gone (film) include:

• Actor Allusion: Sgt. Powers (played by Daniel Sunjata, who portrayed Franco Rivera in Rescue Me) tells Detective Bentley to become a firefighter if he wants to chase tail.
• Broken Bird: Jill is very, very damaged.
• Pay Evil Unto Evil: Jill's treatment of her abductor is brutal.
• Plucky Girl: Jill might be short but she's not a girl to mess with. She gets a little carried in a self defence class and has to be pulled of her unfortunate opponent before beating the crap after all.
• Red Herring: A student who used to constanly hit on Molly turns out to be an Armoured Closet Gay.
• Teens Are Short: An in-universe plot point - like the actress playing her Jill is is in her twenties but being quite short she is able to pass herself off as a young teen an one point.
• Unreliable Narrator: From the audience perspective Jill undoubtedly believes that her sister has been abducted but it quickly emerges that she is witholding information from the police that might cause them to doubt her concerns (she conceals her sister's drinking problem), is an extremely talented liar and may even be mentally unbalanced. She turns out to be right about the abductioon.