City by the Sea R
When you're searching for a killer... the last suspect you want to see is your son.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 18, 2003
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert De Niro & Frances McDormand | |
Performer: | Patti Lupone, James Franco, William Forsythe, George Dzundza & Eliza Dushku | |
Directed by | Michael Caton-Jones | |
Screenwriting by | Ken Hixon | |
Composition by | John Murphy | |
Produced by | Elie Samaha, Michael Caton-Jones, Andrew Stevens, Brad Grey & Matthew Baer | |
Director of Photography: | Karl Walter Lindenlaub | |
Executive Production by | Roger Paradiso, Dan Klores & Don Carmody |
Entertainment Reviews:
Filmmaker Micahel Caton-Jones serves up an edgy drama filled with tragically flawed characters portrayed by Robert De Niro, James Franco and Frances MacDormand.
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IGN Movies
Rating: 3/4 --
A film that doesn't just support the action to come, but makes it seem inevitable.
Newsday
...[De Niro] gives one of his gentlest, most quietly affecting performances....CITY BY THE SEA has combustible moments that wake you right up...
Entertainment Weekly
...Franco brings a tortured grace to his performance...
Sight and Sound
It all adds up to a moving film that may not be unforgettable, but it is memorable nonetheless.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Franco's a find, and the rapport between De Niro and McDormand resonates effortlessly.
Uncut
Rating: 4/5 --
Sombre, unpretentious and quietly moving.
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BBC.com
Product Description:
In CITY BY THE SEA, Robert De Niro plays Vincent, a New York City cop who is investigating a murder that leads him back to the place where he grew up--Long Beach. A born loner who is pained by his past but never shows it, Vincent rarely opens up to his partner (George Dzunda) or his girlfriend (Frances McDormand). However, when his son Joey (James Franco) is named as the murder suspect, he is challenged to confront his duties as a father and a cop.
A constant dialogue between the good times and the bad, the past and the present, and the choices made along the way gives CITY BY THE SEA an emotional, contemplative edge. In its opening scene, a colorful vintage photograph of the happily crowded seaside at Long Beach in the 1970s fades into the cold gray dilapidated locale of the early 21st Century. Joey has similarly faded from a cheerful young boy to a broken junkie loitering on the boardwalk and living in an abandoned merry-go-round. And while Vincent maintains a contented balance between work and his noncommitted romance, it is clear that he feels his best days have passed. The violence and neglect that permeates life on Long Beach is the evil from which Vincent must now save his son, a gesture which breathes new life and new hope into the family he nearly deserted.
A constant dialogue between the good times and the bad, the past and the present, and the choices made along the way gives CITY BY THE SEA an emotional, contemplative edge. In its opening scene, a colorful vintage photograph of the happily crowded seaside at Long Beach in the 1970s fades into the cold gray dilapidated locale of the early 21st Century. Joey has similarly faded from a cheerful young boy to a broken junkie loitering on the boardwalk and living in an abandoned merry-go-round. And while Vincent maintains a contented balance between work and his noncommitted romance, it is clear that he feels his best days have passed. The violence and neglect that permeates life on Long Beach is the evil from which Vincent must now save his son, a gesture which breathes new life and new hope into the family he nearly deserted.
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- UPC: 085392208227
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