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| Run Time: | 108 |
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| Video Release: | 17 Feb 2003 |
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The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) rated City By the Sea R for language, drug use and some violence.
Synopsis: Can criminal behavior run in a family? Hoping to break any possibility of a cycle, the son of a convicted murder becomes a police officer. But after years of service, Vincent LaMarca (Robert De Niro) is given a new homicide case to investigate -- and the most likely suspect is his own son (James Franco).
City By the Sea is rated R: for language, drug use and some violence
Cast: Robert De Niro, Frances McDormand
Studio: 2002 Warner Brothers
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