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City by the Sea is a 2002 American crime drama film starring Robert De Niro, James Franco, Eliza Dushku, Frances McDormand and William Forsythe. It deals with the family problems of a wayward youth and is set against a man trying to break free of his past.
Sep 6, 2002 · If this story sounds a little too symmetrical and neat, and in a way it does, real life supplies a rebuttal: "City by the Sea" is based on a true story, as described by the writer Mike McAlary in a 1997 Esquire article.
Sep 6, 2002 · City by the Sea: Directed by Michael Caton-Jones. With Robert De Niro, Frances McDormand, James Franco, Eliza Dushku. 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 become a murder suspect.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Michael Caton-Jones
- 2002-09-06
Sep 6, 2002 · The family woe has apparently trickled down to LaMarca’s own son Joey (Franco), a drug addict now living in the dilapidated town of Long Beach, N.Y. a place once known as the “city by the sea.”
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Sep 6, 2002 · As Vincent's problems multiply, ''City by the Sea,'' which is based on a magazine article by Michael McAlary (and thus on a true story), stumbles from restrained, fine-edged realism into...
- Michael Caton-Jones
Aug 26, 2002 · Ken Hixon liberally adapts the true story of the tragic LeMarca family often softening actual events to observe how a good cop deals with a drug-addicted son.
Sep 6, 2002 · When a respected New York homicide detective (Robert De Niro) discovers the prime suspect in a murder case is his estranged son (James Franco), he is forced to return home to the decaying ...
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