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UNREAL LIFE.(Brief Article)

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| September 09, 2002 | Denby, David | COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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