Sea of Love (1989) on Netflix
Frank Keller is a veteran New York detective. When men who placed lonely hearts ads are found shot, he places one of his own and meets Helen Cruger, a suspect.
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Plot summary
Frank Keller has twenty years on the New York police force and drinks too much. His wife left him and married a colleague from the same precinct. A man is found shot in his bed while a record of the song Sea of Love plays. A second man dies the same way in Queens, and Detective Sherman Touhey suggests the two detectives work together. Both victims had placed rhyming advertisements in a newspaper's lonely hearts column. Frank writes an advertisement of his own and meets the women who answer it, among them Helen Cruger, a suspect.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sea of Love (1989)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Sea of Love was Al Pacino's first film after a four-year hiatus, which followed the critical and commercial failure of Revolution.
- Dustin Hoffman was originally in negotiations to star in Sea of Love, before Al Pacino became interested in the project and took the lead.
- Sea of Love made $10 million in its opening weekend, topping the box office and setting the record for the best debut for a film released in the fall.
