Sea of Love

Sea of Love

★ 6.6IMDb Score
Released:1989-09-15
Duration:113 min
Director:Harold Becker
Actors:Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Michael Rooker, William Hickey
Production:Universal Pictures

Overview:

Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

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