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Beyond the Sea
Lions Gate Films Inc.
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some strong language and a scene of sensuality
Starring
Kevin Spacey,
Kate Bosworth,
John Goodman,
Bob Hoskins,
Brenda Blethyn,
Greta Scacchi,
Michael Byrne,
and
Michael Byrne
For Bobby Darin (Spacey), performing was his life. It kept his heart beating. He came alive onstage, even when he was near collapse offstage. In Beyond the Sea, Bobby tells us his own story, in his last great performance. (Lions Gate Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Musical
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Kevin Spacey
Lewis Colick
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Kevin Spacey
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 7, 2005
Video: June 7, 2005
Theatrical: December 17, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
121 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Germany / UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Kevin Spacey, both as star and director, has created a hugely entertaining, highly empathetic portrait of a man for whom music was literally the thing that kept him alive.

80
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
Put simply, the film is a dazzling and fearless piece of showmanship.

80
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
As long as Spacey is singing, the movie soars.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is also probably relevant that Spacey, in preparing the project, knew something we could not guess: He is a superb pop singer.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The imagination, energy, chutzpah and sheer affection shown for Darin by director-writer-star Spacey, who plays the singer, are admirable, kicky. This is a movie, that, like Darin himself, takes a lot of chances and delivers on many of them.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Doing his own singing (an uncanny imitation), Spacey is a marvel.

70
Variety
Todd McCarthy
It's raffish, flashy, energetic, entertaining and not very deep.

70
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Artfully structured, combining old-school MGM-type musical numbers with occasional postmodern flourishes to keep the narrative moving.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The real stars are the orchestrators and musicians who swaddled Spacey in a gorgeous blanket of sound.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
Spacey's brazen casting isn't as beyond the pale as it ought to be. In fact, it's hard to imagine this strange and only occasionally successful movie without him.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It fails to persuade us that its subject is significant enough to be worth a movie.

50
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
By offering up the feel-good, MGM-styled musical version, a movie you can hum along to, his biopic serves only as a giant question mark; why bother if you're going to excise the interesting and naughty bits.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Had Spacey made Beyond the Sea 10 or 15 years ago, it might have been close to transporting.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The film never gives you a real sense of what drove Darin on, fighting a heart ailment (from childhood rheumatic fever) and fighting an industry and press that wanted to pigeonhole him.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Vanity: the surest road to mediocrity.

50
TV Guide
Ethan Alter
In the end, Spacey's devotion to Darin may have blinded him to the bigger picture.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Weirdly moving.

50
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Hindered by its own theatricality, Beyond the Sea feels at once hermetic, defensive and corny.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Spacey is almost as swinging as Darin was, but his filmmaking leans toward tried-and-true formulas.

50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Beyond the Sea, with all its gaping faults, is the genuine article. It succeeds in being deeply and sincerely insincere.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
Anyone who thinks Beyond The Sea is a movie about Bobby Darin isn't paying close enough attention.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Saved by energetic musical numbers.

40
Slate
David Edelstein
Apart from Caroline Aaron's turn as Darin's overbearing sister...Beyond the Sea has nothing to recommend it.

40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
You can't BECOME a character if you want to BE that character: Desperation isn't the same thing as acting. Spacey's mimicry is so precise, it's exhausting.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Clumsily merges fiction and reality, biography and musical fantasy, and breaks the fourth wall in a way that allows Spacey to lamely address his own miscasting.

38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The willfully eccentric Beyond the Sea seems to be telling us a lot more about its star and director, Kevin Spacey, than its ostensible subject.

38
Premiere
Peter Debruge
Kevin Spacey is a darn good actor, and he's a pretty good singer to boot. But those traits alone do not excuse the painful experience to be had sitting through Beyond the Sea.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
This vainglorious biopic about Bobby Darin is really about what the '60s pop singer and actor means to Kevin Spacey.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Much more "Splish" than "Splash."

25
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The best reason to see it is Kate Bosworth as Sandra Dee.

25
Miami Herald
Howard Cohen
Camp classic? You bet.

25
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It's simply an awful, awful film.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Jaw-droppingly awful.

20
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
By the end of this wholly disorienting experience (this must be what it's like to be held captive in a Long Island supper club and force-fed hallucinogens), there's only one thing we damn well know, and it's that Kevin Spacey sure as hell believes he was born to play Bobby Darin.

10
Film Threat
Phil Hall
Such a hopeless mess that there's no fun in tossing insults at its endless shortcomings.


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