Sea of Love (1989)
1h 53m | PG-13
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
Director: Harold Becker
Studio: Universal Pictures
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Video: 720p
Cast
Al Pacino
as Frank Keller
Ellen Barkin
as Helen Cruger
John Goodman
as Sherman
Michael Rooker
as Terry
William Hickey
as Frank Keller Sr.
Richard Jenkins
as Gruber
Reviews
"Sea of Love" is a very conventional film for the most part and it will undoubtedly drive the more hardcore crime fans to complete distraction by mining the erotic thriller genre with much of the running time being consumed by the burgeoning sexual encounters of the central couple Frank and Helen. The film will frequently border on the downright boring as a direct result of this, especially amongst the more restive viewers just interested in who did it and why. However, the film successfully toys with us throughout by stringing us along in this regard until the very end when it delivers a tremendous and very satisfying conclusion to the series of murders, but in terms of Frank's and Helen's romance....well, the outcome of that is a good deal more ambiguous.