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Robert De Niro speaks in quiet, even tones throughout much of the dolorous family melodrama "City by the Sea." De Niro is Vincent LaMarca, a respected Manhattan homicide detective who has cut himself off from an earlier time of trouble out in Long Beach, Long Island. Years ago, Vincent's father kidnapped a baby for ransom; the child, hidden in the back seat of a car, accidentally suffocated and the father was convicted of murder and executed. Later, Vincent, as a grown man, ran away from Long Beach, leaving behind his quarrelsome wife (Patty LuPone) and their young son, Joey (James Franco), who is now about twenty-one and a junkie. The city itself, once a resort filled ...