- Career Resurrection: Though he had success with Good Will Hunting and won an Oscar for writing the screenplay, few thought Ben Affleck might still have talent after Gigli flopped. The positive reception this film received brought Affleck newfound regard as a director, who would go on to direct (and act in) hits like The Town and Argo.
- Distanced from Current Events: The release of Gone Baby Gone was delayed in the UK because there were parallels to the recent disappearance of Madeline McCann, which was eventually released on June 6, 2008 in that country, nearly 10 months after its US release.
- Promoted Fanboy: Gone Baby Gone is Ben Affleck's favorite novel.
- Real-Life Relative:
- Ben Affleck's brother Casey Affleck plays the lead role.
- Ed Harris and Amy Madigan are husband and wife in real-life.
- Those Two Actors: Ed Harris and Titus Welliver also appeared together in Man on a Ledge.
- Throw It In!:
- Several pieces of dialog from background characters, such as a customer in the bar saying that Patrick has an "ass like a Skippy jar". On the director's commentary, Affleck admits that he started to worry about whether or not the extras, who really are residents of Boston, would take direction or tell them to buzz off.
- On the DVD Commentary, Ben Affleck says that he and Jill Quigg improvised the scene early in the movie in which Quigg (as Dottie) talks to the press about the flyers they had posted and the vigils they had planned. Affleck says that he would feed her some lines and then she would perform them; her mispronunciation of the word "vigil" as "visual" came from her mishearing what Affleck had said from behind the camera, but he later decided to keep it the way she had said it.
- What Could Have Been: Ben Affleck considered starring as Patrick Kenzie. Chris Evans auditioned for the role.
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