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Sea of Love [Region 2] | ![Sea of Love [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419ASQAFC2L._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Harold Becker
Actors: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Michael Rooker, William Hickey
Category: DVD
Buy New: $36.40
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Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 302431
Format: PAL
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582110425
ASIN: B0001IMCRK
Theatrical Release Date: September 15, 1989
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After a career slump that plagued him through most of the 1980s, Al Pacino made a stellar comeback in this taut 1989 thriller, playing a weary New York police detective who falls in love with the woman (Ellen Barkin) who is the prime suspect in the murder case he's investigating. Expertly written by Richard Price and directed by Harold Becker, the story is designed to keep its central characters (and the viewer) in a state of constant suspicion and arousal--an emotional combination that sends dangerous sparks flying between Pacino and Barkin. Their chemistry is intense, and their love scenes are some of the hottest of any movie of its decade. But Sea of Love is not merely concerned with cheap titillation. It's a riveting whodunit with scenes of nail-biting suspense and memorable dialogue that make it as interesting to listen to as it is to watch. Barkin had made a similarly sexy impression in The Big Easy, and here she gives one of the best performances of her underrated career, matching Pacino's excellence scene for scene. The ending's a bit of a letdown because the murder solution comes somewhat out of the blue, but it's the acting and suspense that you'll remember most--qualities that make Sea of Love one of the best films of its kind. --Jeff Shannon
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After a career slump that plagued him through most of the 1980s, Al Pacino made a stellar comeback in this taut 1989 thriller, playing a weary New York police detective who falls in love with the woman (Ellen Barkin) who is the prime suspect in the murder case he's investigating. Expertly written by Richard Price and directed by Harold Becker, the story is designed to keep its central characters (and the viewer) in a state of constant suspicion and arousal--an emotional combination that sends dangerous sparks flying between Pacino and Barkin. Their chemistry is intense, and their love scenes are some of the hottest of any movie of its decade. But Sea of Love is not merely concerned with cheap titillation. It's a riveting whodunit with scenes of nail-biting suspense and memorable dialogue that make it as interesting to listen to as it is to watch. Barkin had made a similarly sexy impression in The Big Easy, and here she gives one of the best performances of her underrated career, matching Pacino's excellence scene for scene. The ending's a bit of a letdown because the murder solution comes somewhat out of the blue, but it's the acting and suspense that you'll remember most--qualities that make Sea of Love one of the best films of its kind. --Jeff Shannon
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 Sea of Love March 11, 2010
Al Matin (Kansas City)
This is one of my favorite mysteries. The plot centers around two recent divorcees, played by Pacino and Barkin who meet each other through a singles magazine. Pacino who clearly suffers from his divorce, is a police detective. He not only misses his wife, but struggles with a chronic alcohol problem, and the ignomy of being forced to work with his ex-wife's new husband. Ellen Barkin plays a divorced single mom, clearly able to adjust to her new life. She is tough and very much in control. She's also attractive, passionate, and in no hurry to start a serious new relationship. I can't say much more without giving the plot away, but be prepared for an emotional adreneline rush after they meet. The film has some excellent plot twists, involving identity issues, John Goodman revises his Dan Connors image, (with a twist), desperate, almost tragic loneliness, (some of us never find the happy ending)and one of the most torrid love scenes this side of an X rating. Ultimately the movie is about hope and the redeeming value of love.
This is the third copy of this movie I've bought. Be careful about loaning it out to friends ... : )
Who dunnit February 26, 2010
Michael Turturici
The three characters in the DVD are really well matched up. Thought John Goodman was terrific and Al and Ellen's characters were very believable.
Sea of Love February 20, 2010
Mark Williamson (Bridgeport, WV USA)
This movie is a greatly entertaining movie I would highly recommend. I bought it on Amazon for a great price.
Better than all the experts in the world September 29, 2009
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
As a cop this actor is pathetic but fascinating. A serial killer is at work in New York, using poetic ads in the Village Voice to attract his preys. But in fact he is not the killer really but the real prey of the killer who is... the woman, at first they thought, the police, and they are wrong of course. So our cops dress up as bar waiters and poetic lovers and they start dating women in a bar via some nice poems in the Village Voice. Of course in the lot they manage to catch the good one, but in the meantime our cop has fallen in love with her and he is unable to see straight. He is so shocked when he discovers she is connected with the victims that he stops thinking and he wants her to commit one more crime and he frightens her to death and she leaves. It is then someone rings at the door and what a surprise, a colleague of his, a cop, ... you go and discover the details. Sordid, bleak, miserable, and that sea of love is just spilled over, a real tsunami. The actor is so good that he makes us believe two things. For one cops have special eyes and anyone can recognize them by the way they look at you or anything. And for two that a cop in love is like a whale out of the sea, dying because he is crushed by his own weight, that of his gun and badge, and crushing everything around himself like the big fat monster he is. One of these actors of the old generation who were, and some of them still are and have taught the trade to a few younger ones, able to impersonate any part, any role, any situation as if they were chameleons. That's rare, my gosh, that's rare but so good when you meet one from time to time. That thriller is "The Experts" plus a good touch of humane and human depth. Let's hope competition and the crisis helps Hollywood to ask their actors to relearn that trade of old and begin again composing their characters from inside and not as if they were some kind of costumes you don over your evening jacket or dress.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
sea of love is movie to be loved. August 3, 2009
Hariharan Venkatesh (New Delhi, India)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
the movie is very good and the chemistry between lead actor and the actress is hypnotising.
Hariharan Venkatesh
New Delhi,
India
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