Sea of Love (1989)

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  JackthePGL

  8 / 10

  I am interested in seeing this movie only 'cause I heard the song itself only the Tom Waits version and I enjoyed it. With no one had ever heard of this film is that it's surprising forgotten and come to their surprise it stars Al Pacino. Frank Keller played by Al Pacino, is a burned-out alcoholic. His wife left him and married one of his colleagues, and he is depressed about reaching his 20th year on the police force. He is assigned to investigate the murder of a man in Manhattan, shot while face down in his bed, naked, listening to an old recording of "Sea of Love." One thing for sure is that a second man dies in the same way and the killer will do the same thing to the others. Detective Sherman played by John Goodman, suggests that he and Frank collaborate. Both victims had placed rhyming ads in the lonely hearts column of the newspaper, seeking dates. Frank has dinner with several women, while Sherman posing as a waiter puts their glasses into evidence bags. One woman, divorcee Helen Cruger played by Ellen Barkin, shows no interest in Frank and leaves without taking a drink, so Frank is unable to get her fingerprints. I remember seeing this multiple times in my life knowing that the film is awesome back in the day with the thrills and the mystery at how to find a killer who's been killing all the men. As much as the original version of "Sea of Love." plays throughout the film I would really much prefer the Tom Waits version better. Yeah, I know you haven't heard of that version is because nobody has even heard of the film before. Since I own the copy of it, I've seen the deleted scenes in it and I heard the director's commentary in it. Two things in it I found to be interesting. In recent years, what I found online is more deleted scenes which are only two more one of which starring Lorraine Bracco. Yeah, you'll be seeing her in Goodfellas next time. I really like Sea of Love a lot. I think it's a good film even though it's erotic in places but that's what I love about it along with the others. I like the thrills in this, Al Pacino's performance, just what you want from it no matter what.

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