Sea of Love (film)
Sea of Love is a 1989 drama about New York City detective
Frank Keller trying to catch a serial killer who finds victims through the lonely
hearts column in newspapers. It stars Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin and John Goodman.
The
movie was written by Richard Price and directed by Harold Becker. It is credited
as the film that pulled Pacino out of his slump of film failures that occupied
much of the 1980s.
Tagline : In search of a killer,
he found someone who's either the love of his life- or the end of it.
Cast
Al Pacino - Det. Frank Keller
Ellen Barkin - Helen Cruger
John Goodman - Det. Sherman
Michael
Rooker - Terry
William Hickey - Frank Keller Sr.
Richard Jenkins - Gruber
Paul Calderon - Serafino
Gene Canfield - Struk
Larry Joshua - Dargan
John Spencer - Lieutenant
Christine
Estabrook - Gina Gallagher / Lonelyheart
Barbara Baxley - Miss Allen
Patricia Barry - Older Woman
Mark Phelan - Murdered Man
Michael O'Neill - Raymond Brown
Plot
New York Police detective Frank Keller (Al Pacino) investigates the murder of a man in Manhattan, shot dead while face down naked in his bed while listening to a 45rpm recording of "Sea of Love". Keller has three clues - a lipstick-smeared cigarette, a wanted ad the dead man placed in a newspaper and a perfect set of fingerprints. Immediate suspicion falls on a vengeful woman who answered his lonely hearts personal advertisement.
A second man dies in the same manner in Queens. Detective Sherman Touhey (John Goodman) suggests they collaborate. Both victims had put rhyming ads in the paper. They track down Raymond Brown (Michael O'Neill), the only other man with a rhyming ad. He's a married man and admits placing the ad, but swears on his children's lives that he threw away all the letters and never saw anyone.
Keller has an idea - place their own rhyming ad in the paper, take any women who respond to a restaurant and take the prints from their glasses. Keller's boss (John Spencer) thinks it is a bad idea. However, Brown soon turns up dead.
Keller has dinner with several women, while Sherman — posing as a waiter — puts their empty glasses into evidence bags. One of the women, Helen Cruger (Ellen Barkin) snubs Keller and leaves before she takes a drink. Keller bumps into her again at a market, but this time, Cruger is more friendly. Keller goes back to Cruger's place, ostensibly to get her fingerprints. He panics when he finds a gun in her purse, but it turns up to be just a starting pistol.
Keller and Cruger begin a serious relationship. Keller has a chance to obtain Cruger's fingerprints on a glass, but decides to wipe the glass clean. Their relationship proves rocky when Cruger discovers that Keller is a cop.
Cruger's ex-husband Terry (Michael Rooker) breaks into Keller's apartment and threatens him with a gun. He makes Keller lie on his bed and show him how he made love to Helen, just as he had done with his ex-wife's other three boyfriends. Keller overpowers Terry and tries to call the police, but the killer is wild and lunges at him. In the struggle, Terry is accidentally thrown through the window and plunges to his death.
Keller and Cruger reunite. She forgives him, and they resume their relationship.
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