Sea Of Love

Sea Of Love – Detective Frank Keller (Pacino) is stumbling through a whale of a mid-life crisis: recently divorced, taking care of his widower father, married to his job, all with an alcohol-soaked brain, which really prevents him from dealing with any of this at all, let alone correctly, until one night he meets and falls in love with a kind, caring divorced mother (Barkin) he met through a personal ad.

Trouble is she may be the serial killer who’s been offing guys placing ads. More trouble, he only met her on a sting operation, attempting to find the killer and pretends he’s not a cop. Pacino is exceptional at conveying every combination of emotions a man in this situation would be going through.

Watch for the intense scene where Pacino stares down two well-dressed hoods that enter Barkin’s shoe store. Shades of Michael Corrleone. Great acting all around with a huge nod to Richard Jenkins as the cop who married Keller's ex-wife and a terrific script by Richard Price. (Starring Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman.)