History Film / GONE

* DamselOutOfDistress: Jill managed to escape her abductor the first time. When she's lured back into his clutches, she does it ''again'' (this time she brings a gun, making this easier).

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: [[spoiler:Once she's overpowered him, Jill gets her abductor to fess up about what happened with her sister by shooting him non-lethally twice, then promising she won't any more if he tells her. It works.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Jill kills her abductor this way, pouring gasoline onto him then setting it on fire.]]

* ParentalAbandonment: Jill and Molly's parents are both dead. The trauma of their loss resulted in Jill having attempted or at least being viewed as a risk for suicide, which meant she spent a bit of time in a hospital.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:The abductor]], who would have murdered (and likely raped) Jill (while he's also had many more victims, gets painfully killed by her.
* BrokenBird: Jill is quite damaged as a result of first losing her parents, then being abducted, help captive, escaping and then being disbelieved over his mental issues plus a lack of evidence to support her claims.

* DamselOutOfDistress: Jill managed to escape her abductor the first time. When she's lured into his clutches again, she does it ''again'' (this time she brings a gun, making this easier).
* DrivenToSuicide: Jill attempted suicide or at least was viewed as a risk for it in the past due to depression after both her parents died, resulting in her being temporarily committed to a mental institution.
* ExactWords: [[spoiler:Jill promised her abductor that she won't shoot him if he tells her where her sister is. She didn't actually say anything about burning him alive...

* ILied: Jill says this after she starts pouring gasoline onto her abductor, who screams that she said she'd let him go if he'd told her what he's done with her sister.

%%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:The abducter]]
* BrokenBird: Jill is very, very damaged.

* FlashbackEcho: Seeing a familiar object, Jill begins to remember about her own abduction a year prior.

* LineOfSightName: Digger. [[spoiler:This is what the abductor calls himself, and Jill correctly states this is reference to the big hole in the ground that the SerialKiller used to dump the bodies of young women]].

* PluckyGirl: Jill might be short but she's not a girl to mess with. She gets a little carried away in her self defense class and has to be pulled off her opponent after said opponent gave her sly comment and moved a piece of her hair away from her face.

* RevolversAreForAmateurs: Jill owns a .38 special which she should not legally own as she had spent time in a psychiatric hospital a few years after her parents death.

* UnreliableNarrator: From the audience perspective Jill undoubtedly ''believes'' that her sister has been abducted but it quickly emerges that she is withholding 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. [[spoiler: She turns out to be right about the abduction.]]

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.

* ActorAllusion: Sgt. Powers (played by [[RescueMe Franco]]) tells Detective Bentley to become a firefighter if he wants to chase tail.

* LineOfSightName: Digger. [[spoiler:This is what the abductor calls himself, and Jill correctly states this is refernece to the big hole in the ground that the SerialKiller used to dump the bodies of young women]].

* PluckyGirl: Jill might be short but she's not a girl to mess with. She gets a little carried away in her self defense class and has to be pulled of her opponent after said opponent gave her sly comment and moved a piece of her hair away from her face.

* [[spoiler:AssholeVictim / KarmicDeath: The abducter]]

* [[spoiler: PayEvilUntoEvil: Jill's treatment of her abductor is ''brutal''. Jill ultimately kills her former abductor by wounding him first, and then [[KillItWithFire burning him]] ''[[KillItWithFire alive]]''.]]

* TeensAreShort: 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.

* AntiHero: Jill, [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type III --> Type IV/V]]

''Gone'' is a 2012 PsychologicalThriller starring AmandaSeyfried.

* [[spoiler: PayEvilUntoEvil: Jill's treatment of her abductor is ''brutal''. Jill ultimately kills her former [[CompleteMonster abductor]] by wounding him first, and then [[KillItWithFire burning him]] ''[[KillItWithFire alive]]''.]]

* [[spoiler:AssholeVictim: The abducter]]

* AntiHero: Jill [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type III [[spoiler:--> Type IV/V]] ]]

* AntiHero: Jill [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type III [[spoiler:--> Type IV/V]]

* AntiHero: Jill ([[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type III [[spoiler:--> Type IV/V]]]])

* AntiHero: Jill ([[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type III [[spoiler:--> Type IV/V]] ]])

* [[spoiler: PayEvilUntoEvil: Jill's treatment of her abductor is ''brutal''. Jill ultimately kills her former abductor by wounding him first, and then [[KillItWithFire burning him]] ''[[KillItWithFire alive]]''.]]

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:How Jill ultimately kills her former abductor... by wounding him first, then burning him ''alive''.]]

* [[spoiler: PayEvilUntoEvil: Jill's treatment of her abductor is ''brutal''.]]

Jill Conway (Seyried) 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.

* FlashbackEcho: Jill finds some duct tape and begins to remember about her own abduction a year prior.

Jill Conway (Seyried) is a young woman living in Portland with her sister Molly. A year ago Jill was apparently abducated by an unidentied 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 fantasised 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.

!!This film contains examples of the folling tropes:
* ActorAllusion: Sgt. Powers (played by Franco (RescueMe)) tells Detective Bentley to become a firefighter if he wants to chase tail.

* PluckyGirl: 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.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: A student who used to constanly hit on Molly turns out to be an ArmouredClosetGay.]]

* UnreliableNarrator: 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. [[spoiler: She turns out to be right about the abductioon.]]