Gone in the Night (1996)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

A Disappointing Continuation

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Blistering performances.

love how she said"next time you steal someone kid or accuse Someone prosecutor etc.JUST GET YOUR STORY RIGHT NEXT TIME because my SON has NO BRUISING/BRUISES OVER HIS BODY,THE PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN SHOW THIS,SO get your story RIGHT next time.she is so right so many parents as self were FALSELY ACCUSED.The ending show us just how RIGHT Shannon character was telling the ostensible crooked state this who falsely accused her.LOVE IT!!! SHANNEN/KEVIN ROCKS IN THIS MOVIE.SO TRUE.what a GREAT film same as the other true story involving cps-dyfs worker as a prosecutor entitled JUST ASK MY CHILDREN another GREAT TRUE TO LIFE film effecting children mothers good parents etc who are completely innocent.love it...Reminding our advocacy organization at GOOD MOMS FIGHT DYFS and CPS DYFS FALSIFIES RECORDS in n.j.& nationwide,where as our advocate was falsely accused as "Cy and David"in this film NOT of strangulation no.but child abuse "Excessive corporal"yet PHOTOGRAPHS left behind by child case worker.(& woman prosecuting case ALL LATER verified to have LIED LIED LIED!) her suit is currently pending under MELENDEZ in u.s. federal court as well as STATE for BRAND NEW Violations. clearly this movie show just how EVIL nefariously mean,hateful the so called ostensible "state employees"can be just to secure a WIN.built on a lie. i am so happy they were later acquitted. reading most comments here i tear with you when i watch cry plus smile when they WON the right to go home with their other child(ren)finally was reunited.i see most agreeing this movie was indeed almost four hours long! loll but worth it,the grandmother play by lovely Dixie carter was awesome. as Lou grant who help them so MUCH as investigation he ran help them a lot.AFTER HE READ THE ENTIRE CASE FILE HE KNEW MOM WAS Innocent as dave long movie YES! but who cares,it was a great film so TRUE TO LIFE....later after the movie aired:the parents saying in a interview or two later as also on Oprah many years ago and or another talk show how SHANNEN my girl play the heck out of "Cy" as her husband call her short for cindy.....she was brilliant as father Kevin Dillon part. i love him anyhow great actor in my honest opinion during EACH scene,especially the "rain scene"where as he was like what do you want me to do huh? i am doing all i can here Cy.! tell me what to do i love this movie! great passionate action making me really BELIEVE it was the REAL parents. i love the part where as FINALLY! you see their house of cards crumble"CROOKED prosecutor D.A. office etc. where as CYN find out when FINALLY able to speak to her son ask him,hey Davie"they said you took some pix or something?"he says yes mommy i took pictures of my body but NOT by the policeman mommie. by a "dr." and then Cy turn to the news guys holding press conference! i loved it cause you hear her attorney saying when reporter ask"well how do you explain the BRUISING and all of the BRUISES AS WELL AS LACERATIONS written on here as well as body chart with many markings written by dr.? i love seeing her with her female great attorney say"THEY ONLY LED YOU TO BELIEVE WHAT THEY Wanted the court and media to Believe" that THE PHOTOGRAPHS DO NOT LIE!!I LOVE IT. AND THEY FINALLY WON LAWSUIT (naturally)and in full deserverance of a big settlement for son's pain and little new baby as the parents.just goes to show you 1 little or 2 mark on child do happen to all kids,the pix showing NO BRUISING on this child no bruise at all yet they LIED withheld the son pix. i love this movie actually i got it on right now for 100x since mid 1990s! loll love it true stories on LMN/lifetime movie network always is BEST.adios.

This is based on a true story of the Dowalibys and the murder of their 7 year old daughter, Jaclyn, for which they stand accused. What happens to them, how the "system" tries to beat them down to submission and the lengths to which the prosecutors are willing to go to win, is the basis of the movie. Shannen Doherty delivers a gripping portrayal of Cindi Dowaliby, as first she fights the system, then she has to fight her husband. This may well be her best performance. I don't know how you pick the supporting cast in this story. There were no "small" parts (I watched the movie initially because a former newscaster from my home town was in it and may have had the only small part). Ed Asner, Dixie Carter, etc., would be classified as supporting cast, I guess, and they played their roles to perfection, Asner as the retired detective and Carter as the mother-in-law who finally comes to grips with her shortcomings and discovers that she has great affection for her daughter-in-law. The circumstances surrounding the investigation, the arrests, trial, and unexpected outcome all tie together so quickly that there are no "slow moments" where your mind can wonder without losing part of the plot or the puzzle pieces. But this isn't Hollywood, this is real and you feel you're watching a retrospective news report, except for the personal exchanges between the Cindi and David. When they can't agree on how to handle the initial verdict, your not sure David will listen and it might cost him dearly. If you don't know how the situation ended (as I didn't), you might think it had a much different ending. A truly riveting movie, I found myself wishing I knew what subsequently has become of the Dowalibys. I could definitely watch it again.

The horror of a world seeped in injustice. This could happen anywhere, a child could be stolen in the middle of the night by a complete stranger, the kidnapper may have absolutely nothing to do with the family and a justice system COULD be completely unethical, incompetent and all the other fitting words that could be used to describe a system that could do this to a family who had gone through so much.How can this family recover from such an event and everything additional that happened to them? Are they left distrusting the system? How has this affected their mental health? God help them and God help those who acted without fairness - they too must be suffering but at no consolation to the little girl's family.This movie has been masterfully created to depict a story that rocked the world - only one in a long line of miscarriages of justice - this film is a great educational tool and raises a whole host of issues for discussion at the very least. Shannen Doherty and Kevin Dillon did great. Do watch it!

I just saw this movie... they divided it up. So the first half they showed last Tuesday and the last one today. I thought that I would watch it, I dídn't really know what it was. I just read that Shannen was in it, and I thought: Hey, Shannen's great so this movie outa be great too. And it really was great, but also very very sad. I mean I cried throught the whole movie. Cindy was a very strong person who didn't give up, she's a fighter. If you haven't seen it, I sugjest you go rent it, it's a very good movie... and I too would like to own it on tape