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City By The Sea
When a respected New York homicide detective discovers the prime suspect in a murder case is his estranged son, he is forced to return home to confront the darkness of his past, where his father was executed for a 1950s kidnapping of a child.
5 November 1955, Bronx, New York, USA
21 April 1949, Northport, Long Island, New York, USA
30 December 1980, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
19 July 1945, Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany
8 February 1944, USA
28 September 1944, New York City, New York, USA
18 June 1962, New York, New York, USA
27 March 1959, New York City, New York, USA
January 06, 2004
If Rebel Without a Cause were told from the father's perspective, the result would probably be something like City by the Sea.
September 06, 2002
The real Vincent LaMarca has lived a life that's the stuff of Greek tragedy. Too bad this film can't quite do it justice.
September 06, 2002
I like everything about it except it.
January 15, 2005
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.
December 28, 2008
The film ends up as shallow as the thankless love interest role Frances McDormand somehow agreed to play here.
April 29, 2009
It's a shame that the source material and filmmakers manage to waste all the talented actors in this project.
September 11, 2002
A film that doesn't just support the action to come, but makes it seem inevitable.
July 02, 2008
Filmmaker Micahel Caton-Jones serves up an edgy drama filled with tragically flawed characters portrayed by Robert De Niro, James Franco and Frances MacDormand.
September 06, 2002
De Niro's workmanlike in a dismayingly familiar role.
September 06, 2002
It's a run-of-the-mill cop thriller but also a gripping family drama.
September 26, 2002
A compendium of clichés about fathers and sons.
December 22, 2010
Ambitious, improbable and very violent cop drama.