City by the Sea is a 2002 film starring Robert De Niro and Frances McDormand. It deals with a family and the problems of wayward youth are set against a man trying to break with his past. It was directed by Michael Caton-Jones. It is based on a story of Vincent LaMarca.
De Niro plays a veteran street cop, the son of an executed killer. While his father didn't intend to kill the child he kidnapped, the son reaps the reputation anyway and decides t...
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City by the Sea is a 2002 film starring Robert De Niro and Frances McDormand. It deals with a family and the problems of wayward youth are set against a man trying to break with his past. It was directed by Michael Caton-Jones. It is based on a story of Vincent LaMarca.
De Niro plays a veteran street cop, the son of an executed killer. While his father didn't intend to kill the child he kidnapped, the son reaps the reputation anyway and decides to be so good that he is beyond reproach. Meanwhile, his son, a drug user with fading memories of high school athletic glory, gets wrapped up in a drug-related killing and asks his father for help. After a failed marriage and an estranged son suddenly come to the attention of de Niro's current girlfriend, she asks why he won't help his son. He has tried so hard to distance himself that he cannot accept any intrusion into his contentment. His son gets deeper into trouble when the local drug enforcer (played by William Forsythe) kills a cop who...
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