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Sea of Love
1989
· Movie
· 113 min
C
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2577
- IMDb #2717
- Rotten Tomatoes #2316
- Metacritic #2087
- Letterboxd #2521
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2360
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2838
- Metacritic Critics #1878
- Metacritic Audience #2612
- Criticker #1677
- Kinopoisk #1557
- AlloCiné #2989
- Trakt #3101
Every rating
50–84
out of 100
A jaded New York detective investigating a series of murders finds the victims are all men who met their killer through the personal ads in a newspaper. He goes undercover, placing his own ad to lure the suspect, and begins a passionate relationship with a potential prime suspect. His professional duty becomes dangerously entangled with his personal desires, leaving him unsure if he is hunting a killer or falling in love with one.
Details
- Director
- Harold Becker
- Writer
- Richard Price
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
- Released
- 15 September 1989
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $19.0M
- Box office
- $110.9M
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