Universal Pictures released Sea of Love on September 15, 1989. Harold Becker directed the film starring Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, and John Goodman.
‘Sea of Love’ Plot Synopsis
Sea of Love takes place in Manhattan. Detective Frank Keller is a veteran cop with twenty years on the force, but he’s terribly lonely. His ex-wife, Denise, left him for a colleague from the same precinct named Gruber. When a man dies from a gunshot wound to the neck while the song, Sea of Love plays on an old 45; the P.D. places Frank in charge of the investigation. In time, a Detective Sherman joins Frank when his district finds a second victim with the same type wounds. Additionally, they learn the victims have something else in common. They wrote into a lonely hearts column for the New York Weekly. After a third death, Frank convinces his boss to let him go undercover with a submission to the magazine as well. However, Frank winds up falling in love with a woman named Helen Cruger. Once she becomes the investigation’s prime suspect, Frank has trouble putting his feelings for her aside. Thus jeopardizing the investigation.
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Universal Pictures released Sea of Love on September 15, 1989. Harold Becker directed the film starring Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, and John Goodman.