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Sea of Love
.: Scheda del Film :.
Titolo originale: Sea of Love
Nazionalità: USA
Anno: 1989
Genere: Thriller
Regia: Harold Becker
Produzione: Universal Pictures
.: Cast :.
Al Pacino: Detective Frank Keller
John Goodman: Detective Sherman
Ellen Barkin: Helen Cruger
Michael Rooker: Terry
William Hickey: Padre di Frank
Richard Jenkins: Detective Gruber
Paul Calderon: Serafino
John Spencer: Tenente
Larry Joshua: Dargan
Christine Estabrook: Gina Gallagher
Patricia Barry: Donna anziana
Michael O'Neill: Raymond Brown
Samuel L. Jackson: pregiudicato
.: Trama in inglese :.
Sea of Love is a 1989 American thriller film directed by Harold Becker. It was written by Richard Price, and it features Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin and John Goodman.
The story concerns a New York City detective who is trying to catch a serial killer who finds victims through the singles column in a newspaper.[1] It is credited with pulling Pacino out of his slump of film failures that occupied much of the 1980s. It was also Pacino's first film in four years, following the flop Revolution.
New York City Police detective Frank Keller is a burnt-out alcoholic. His wife ran away from him and remarried one of his colleagues. His anger and aggression are mainly to hide the fact that he is depressed about reaching middle age, with 20 years of police work under his belt. To forget his woes, he investigates the murder of a man in Manhattan, shot dead while face down in his bed, naked, listening to an old 45rpm recording of "Sea of Love". Keller has three clues - a lipstick-smeared cigarette, a want ad which the dead man placed in a newspaper, and good fingerprints of the perpetrator.
A second man dies in the same manner in Queens. Detective Sherman Touhey from the local precinct suggests that he and Frank collaborate. Both victims had placed rhyming ads in the lonely hearts column of the newspaper, seeking dates. They track down Raymond Brown, the only other man with a rhyming ad. He's a married man and admits placing the ad, but swears on his children's eyes that he threw away all the letters and never saw anyone.
Frank gets an idea to place their own rhyming ad in the paper, take any women who respond to a restaurant and take the prints from their drinking glasses. Frank's boss thinks Frank is looking for an excuse to end his loneliness, and does not approve the idea. He changes his mind when Raymond Brown also turns up dead in the same manner as the other two murder victims.
Frank has dinner with several women, while Sherman — posing as a waiter — puts their glasses into evidence bags. One woman, Helen Cruger, snubs Keller and leaves before she takes a drink. Keller bumps into her again at a market, but this time she is more friendly. Frank takes her to his place, against his better judgement and advice from Sherman not to do so. They start getting passionate when Frank panics finding a gun in her purse, but it turns out to be just a starting pistol. Frank and Helen begin a relationship.
Frank has a chance to obtain Helen's fingerprints on a glass, but decides to wipe the glass clean. Their relationship becomes strained when she discovers that he is a cop. He nearly gives away the fact that she was involved in a sting, but plays it off as an attempt to hide his very-real feelings for her. He later discovers that she responded to each of the victims' ads and confronts her, but she does not admit to anything and he throws her out.
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