Sea of love - 1989

Not too bad, but nothing too good either. There's Al Pacino in it, and that's not only a good thing, but it's basically the only thing that makes this film worth a rewatch. He's a detective; he's still not over the fact that his wife divorced him, and the fact that she lives now with his partner is not easy I guess. When they find a man murdered, all Frank (Pacino) can think of seems to be his ex-wife living with Gruber (Richard Jenkins). When detective Sherman (John Goodman) informs him that he had in his district an identical murder, the two start working together. They discover that all the dead men had paid to have a personal ad appear on a paper. A poem. The detectives then think that a woman who likes poetry dated them and then killed them. They arrange to have a similar ad printed in the 'singles' column in a newspaper , using a poem written by Frank's mother when she was a girl, then the plan is simple: in turns, one of them plays the part of the 'date' and the other plays the waiter, so to gain access to the glass the woman touched and have them processed for prints. First, Frank meets one woman after the other in a bar while Sherman plays the waiter. One by one they go away (I didn't like how unpleasant he was towards that older woman. She was beautiful and did not deserve his harsh comments). Finally Helen (Ellen Barkin) walks in. Like the others, she replied to Frank's ad, but she does not touch her glass. She says it can not work between them and goes away without drinking. They go on with their job, and a man, Terry, known to have been working in one of the buildings where a murder occurred, throws them on a false track talking of a delivery boy.
Frank meets Helen again, and this time she seems to be all smiles, and they start dating, and the thing gets kind of serious, but there are problems. Once he sees a gun in her bag and freaks out, treats her very roughly only to discover it's a fake gun. He has the chance to get her fingerprints but he believes in her innocence so he doesn't hand the glass over to be processed as proof; she is annoyed to find out that he is a cop, because she doesn't like that he lied to her, but he has to keep lying because he can't reveal the truth yet. He is then resolved that he can no more live without her, but then he finds out that she dated all the men that were murdered, and suddenly he believes she did it. When she joins him in his house, he confronts her, asks her why, but she's scared and doesn't understand what got into him. After she leaves, Terry comes in. It turns out he's her ex-husband, and that she had no idea he was so close, she had no idea of where he was. Frank and Terry fight for some time until Terry falls out of the window and dies. The investigation is closed, but so seems to be their relationship. Time passes, Frank gives up drinking, and then go to make peace with Helen. At first she's too angry, but then she forgives him. Happy ending.
I liked him a lot (I liked the fact that he was no kind of terminator at all, confronted with a gun pointed at him he freaked out :lol: ), but I did not like her. Maybe with another actress I would have liked the movie more, who knows.



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