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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DE NIRO,ROBERT
EAN: 0085392208227
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchDubbed
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: D22082D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 18, 2003
Running Time: 108 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 06, 2002
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A New York Police officer struggles with his past as a murder investigation brings him to his home town of Long Beach, Long Island.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-FEB-2004
Media Type: DVD
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A welcome throwback to the cop dramas of the '70s, City by the Sea is an average film improved by its cast. Robert De Niro stars as veteran New Jersey detective Vincent LaMarca, lamenting the once glorious Asbury Park boardwalk, now dilapidated from the decay of changing times. A good cop but a regrettable father, LaMarca must confront past mistakes and repressed memories when his estranged son (James Franco) becomes the prime suspect in the killing of LaMarca's partner (George Dzundza). There's a nagging inevitability to Ken Hixon's otherwise intelligent screenplay, but De Niro and Frances McDormand--as LaMarca's compassionate neighbor and part-time girlfriend--turn this simmering drama into something deeper than it is. McDormand's role would be thin without the depth and humanity she brings to it, and both De Niro and Franco mine gold from their troubling father-son legacy. Based on a true story, City by the Sea has that kernel of authenticity that good actors thrive on. --Jeff Shannon
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
City by the Sea tells the true story of three generations of the LaMarca men. It is a story about fathers and sons and the devastating effects the sins of the fathers have on their sons. Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is a homicide detective who has had to live down the reputation of his father all his life. When Vincent was a young boy his father, in a desperate attempt for money, kidnapped a baby from a wealthy family hoping to collect a hefty ransom. Before he could be paid off the baby suffocated ... Read More
Rating: -
The acting in movie is pretty good but the script is kind of a predictable clunker about doom and gloom in drug addict city.
The grandfather was executed, the father had a failed marriage
that left a fatherless undirected son.
A fourth generation complicates the plot, but adds a mellow ending after
shooting and waste set in?
If you are going to produce a film with Robert de Niro and Francis
McDormand, you should have plot and dialog up to it?
Rating: -
Very average cop drama with DeNiro playing a variation on a theme he's done a million times before. Based on a true story, evidently, but the character actors here make it seem very rote Hollywood. Frances McDormand is decent, as usual, as the older girlfriend. This could have been a plot from NYPD Blue. Watch it, but don't expect to be wowed.
Rating: -
Film is set in Long Beach, NY that long time ago used to be a place where people would meet, great and have fun. These days, place is deserted and destitute full of young people drowning in drugs and alcohol. DeNiro plays a police detective with a past. Decades ago, he left Long Beach for NYC in attempt to get a new start at life. In the process, he has divorced his wife and abandoned their son. He lives in self imposed exile on carefully maintained daily routine that seems to help him keeping his ... Read More
Rating:  -
CITY BY THE SEA is an entertaining "gritty" cop film in the vein of television shows such as HOMICIDE or NYPD BLUE. It's a good film that I recommend to fans of the genre but with its credentials it should have been great. The plot is certainly compelling enough and is based on the true story of a NYC police lieutenant who had the misfortune to be both the son and father of a murderer. Robert De Niro expertly plays the detective, Vince, and has great support from Frances McDormand as his girlfriend, ... Read More
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