Sea of Love (1989) - Detective Frank Keller

Sea of Love is a thriller about New York detective Frank Keller investigating a case of a serial killer who finds the victims through the lonely hearts column in newspapers. The first case was a man in Manhattan who shot dead in his bed while listening to a recording of the song "Sea of Love".

Keller's clues are a perfect set of fingerprints, a lipstick-smeared cigarette, and a single column ad the dead man placed in a newspaper. The second victim was a man dies in the same manner in Queens. He also had put rhyming ads in the paper. The third victims, Raymond Brown, also turns up dead in the same manner as the other two murder victims. So Keller has an idea to place a rhyming ad in the newspaper, take any women who respond to a restaurant, take the prints from their drinking glasses, in hope to catch the killer.

Sea of Love is directed by Harold Becker and stars Al Pacino as detective Frank Keller, Ellen Barkin as Helen Cruger, a suspected murderer who later Cruger begin a serious relationship with Keller, and John Goodman as Detective Sherman Touhey. The screenplay for the film was written by Richard Price. He originally wrote the screenplay for Dustin Hoffman, but Hoffman wanted too many rewrites so Al Pacino took over the role.

Sea of Love is Pacino's first movie in 4 years after the big flop Revolution (1985). It also credited as movie that redeem Pacino's career after failures that occupied much of his 1980s movies.


Cast:

Al Pacino ... Det. Frank Keller
Ellen Barkin ... Helen Cruger
John Goodman ... Det. Sherman
Michael Rooker ... Terry
Richard Jenkins ... Gruber
William Hickey ... Frank Keller Sr.
Paul Calderon ... Serafino