City by the Sea R

When you're searching for a killer... the last suspect you want to see is your son.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 18, 2003
  • Originally Released: 2002
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 16,053
...[De Niro] gives one of his gentlest, most quietly affecting performances....CITY BY THE SEA has combustible moments that wake you right up...
Entertainment Weekly
Sep 13, 2002
Rating: 3/4 -- We watch an esteemed actor discovering new nuances. In turn, it's a sublime reminder of the qualities that made Robert De Niro great, not a gimmick. Full Review
Midwest Film Journal
Jun 26, 2003
It all adds up to a moving film that may not be unforgettable, but it is memorable nonetheless. Full Review
Bowling Green Daily News
Nov 15, 2019
...The old Method master hasn't lost his touch....DeNiro's final speech brings back the great-actor tingles...
Total Film
Dec 1, 2002
Rating: B- -- Caton-Jones ... understands that this story is not about how all the details work out, but about one man's heart and his slow awakening to moral responsibility.
Looking Closer
Jan 16, 2005
...[De Niro is] raw and compelling....McDormand has a salt-of-the-earth quality that lends itself nicely to this role...
USA Today
Sep 6, 2002
Filmmaker Micahel Caton-Jones serves up an edgy drama filled with tragically flawed characters portrayed by Robert De Niro, James Franco and Frances MacDormand. Full Review
IGN Movies
Jul 2, 2008

Product Description:

In CITY BY THE SEA, Robert De Niro plays Vincent, a New York City cop who is investigating a murder that leads him back to the place where he grew up--Long Beach. A born loner who is pained by his past but never shows it, Vincent rarely opens up to his partner (George Dzunda) or his girlfriend (Frances McDormand). However, when his son Joey (James Franco) is named as the murder suspect, he is challenged to confront his duties as a father and a cop.

A constant dialogue between the good times and the bad, the past and the present, and the choices made along the way gives CITY BY THE SEA an emotional, contemplative edge. In its opening scene, a colorful vintage photograph of the happily crowded seaside at Long Beach in the 1970s fades into the cold gray dilapidated locale of the early 21st Century. Joey has similarly faded from a cheerful young boy to a broken junkie loitering on the boardwalk and living in an abandoned merry-go-round. And while Vincent maintains a contented balance between work and his noncommitted romance, it is clear that he feels his best days have passed. The violence and neglect that permeates life on Long Beach is the evil from which Vincent must now save his son, a gesture which breathes new life and new hope into the family he nearly deserted.

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  • Sales Rank: 31,331
  • UPC: 085392208227
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