City by the Sea (2002)

Vincent LaMarca is een gerespecteerd politieagent uit Manhattan, die terugkeert naar de buurt waar hij opgroeide - Long Beach in New York - voor het onderzoek naar de moord op de beruchte drugdealer Picasso. LaMarca is echter met stomheid geslagen wanneer hij ontdekt dat de hoofdverdachte in de zaak zijn drugsverslaafde zoon Joey blijkt te zijn. De rechercheur heeft zijn zoon in jaren niet meer gezien of gehoord. Zijn pijnlijke scheiding van Joeys moeder zorgde al die tijd immers voor een onoverbrugbare kloof. Zodra zijn oversten ontdekken dat LaMarca een persoonlijke relatie heeft met de vermoedelijke moordenaar...
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van Picasso, wordt hij van de zaak gehaald. Maar de agent kan niet machteloos toekijken en hij gaat zelf op zoek naar Joey.
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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, con...
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templative 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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A man struggling to come to terms with the sins of his father makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime in a drama based on a true story. Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past; four decades earlier, Vincent's father Angelo killed a young child, and since then Vincent has carried emotional scars from this incident that he refuses to show to the world. Vincent lives alone in a small apartment building, though he has nurtured a close if tentative relationship ...
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with his downstairs neighbor, Michelle (Frances McDormand). One day, Vincent and his partner, Reg Duffy (George Dzundza), are assigned to investigate a murder when the body of a young man is found dead in a dumpster. It turns out the body was that of a drug dealer, and the dealer's partner in crime, Spyder (William Forsythe), believes the killer was one of his regular customers -- a junkie would-be musician who calls himself Snake (Brian Tarantina). City By the Sea was adapted from a piece by journalist Mike McAlary which first appeared in Esquire magazine; the cast also includes Eliza Dushku and Anson Mount.
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