City By The Sea

2002, Movie, R, 108 mins

City By The Sea: Review

Shot in gloomy shades of gray, this earnest but banal story about the legacy of bad parenting strands fine actors in a contrived situation and lets them squirm. Loosely based ("inspired" might be the better term) on Mike McAlary's 1997 Esquire piece "Mark of a Murderer," this examination of grinding guilt and tentative redemption is played out against the mean streets of one-time resort town Long Beach, Long Island, whose blasted landscape mirrors the LaMarca family's emotion... read more leave a comment