city by the sea

Director: michael caton-jones

Actor: robert de niro,james franco,frances mcdormand,eliza dushku

Data Published: Fri Sep 06 2002

Genres: Crime,Drama,Mystery,Thriller

Key Words: murder,police,family abandonment,on the run,father son relationship

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269095/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_by_the_Sea

Description: City by the Sea is a movie starring Robert De Niro, James Franco, and Frances McDormand. Vincent Lamarca, whose father was executed for a 1950s kidnapping of a child, grew up to become a police officer, only to see his own son...

Plot: Vincent LaMarca (Robert De Niro) is a veteran New York City Police Department detective, whose criminal father had been executed for murder, after a child whom he had kidnapped was killed. Vincent has had to live with this stigma hanging over his own reputation, and history begins to repeat itself when his own son, Joey LaMarca (James Franco), a junkie, becomes involved in a drug-related killing. Joey suddenly comes to the attention of Vincent's current girlfriend, Michelle (Frances McDormand), who was unaware that he even had a son, and she can not understand why Vincent is unwilling to help him. Joey's girlfriend Gina (Eliza Dushku), who is struggling to stay sober for their infant son Angelo, comes into Vincent's life, asking him to save Joey. She later abandons the child, leaving him with Vincent. Joey gets deeper into trouble when the local drug enforcer, Spyder (William Forsythe), kills Vincent's cop partner Reg (George Dzundza). Reg had been helping Vincent to clear Joey's name, but Joey is blamed for his murder. As his fellow police officers search for Joey as a suspected "cop killer," Vincent decides to set aside his self-imposed isolation, and to help save his son's life.