Sea of Love (film)
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| Sea of Love | |
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| Directed by | Harold Becker |
| Produced by | Martin Bregman |
| Written by | Richard Price |
| Starring | Al Pacino Ellen Barkin John Goodman Michael Rooker William Hickey Richard Jenkins Paul Calderon |
| Music by | Trevor Jones |
| Distributed by | MCA/Universal |
| Release date(s) | September 15, 1989 |
| Running time | 113 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | unknown |
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Sea of Love is a 1989 drama about New York City detective Frank Keller trying to catch a serial killer who finds victims through the lonely hearts column in newspapers. It stars Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, and John Goodman.
The movie was written by Richard Price. It was directed by Harold Becker. It is credited as the film that pulled Pacino out of his slump of film failures that occupied much of the 1980s.
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New York Police detective Frank Keller (Al Pacino) investigates the murder of a man in Manhattan, shot dead while face down naked in his bed while listening to a 45rpm recording of "Sea of Love". Keller has three clues - a lipstick-smeared cigarette, a wanted ad the dead man placed in a newspaper and a perfect set of fingerprints. Immediate suspicion falls on a vengeful woman who answered his lonely hearts ad.
A second man dies in the same manner in Queens. Detective Sherman (John Goodman) suggests they collaborate. Both victims had put rhyming ads in the paper. They track down Raymond Brown (Michael O'Neill) the only other man with a rhyming ad. He's a married man and admits placing the ad but swears on his children's lives that he threw away all the letters and never saw anyone.
Keller has an idea - place their own rhyming ad in the paper, take any women who respond to a restaurant and take the prints from their glasses. Keller's boss (John Spencer) thinks it is a bad idea. Then Raymond Brown shows up dead.
Keller has dinner with several women while Sherman — posing as a waiter — puts their empty glasses into evidence bags. But one of the women, Helen Cruger (Ellen Barkin) snubs Keller and leaves before she takes a drink. Keller bumps into her again at a market and she is more friendly. He goes back to her place, ostensibly to get her prints. He panics when he finds a gun in her purse, but it turns up to be just a starting pistol.
Keller and Helen begin a serious relationship. Keller gets her prints on a glass but decides to wipe the glass clean. Their relationship proves rocky when Helen discovers that Keller is a cop. Eventually she leaves him.
Helen's ex-husband Terry (Michael Rooker) breaks into Keller's apartment and threatens him with a gun. He makes Keller lie on his bed and show him how he made love to Helen, just as he had done with his ex-wife's other three boyfriends. Keller overpowers Terry and tries to call the police but the killer is wild and lunges at him. In the struggle, Terry is accidentally thrown through the window and plunges to his death.
Keller and Helen are reunited. She forgives him and they resume their relationship.
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