Beyond the Sea
A swooning study of “Mack the Knife” singer Bobby Darin (Spacey) specifically, and his relationship with his wife Sandra Dee (Bosworth).
- Director: Kevin Spacey |
- Genre:Biography / Drama / Music / Musical
- Runtime: 118 minutes
Cast
Kevin Spacey : Bobby Darin
Kate Bosworth : Sandra Dee
John Goodman : Steve Blauner
Bob Hoskins : Charlie Cassotto Maffia
Brenda Blethyn: Polly Cassotto
Rather than providing a straightforward biography, the film weaves fantasy sequences with scenes containing somewhat fictionalized accounts of events in Darin’s life, and throughout it, the adult singer interacts with his younger self. It chronicles his determination to rise from his working class Italian-American roots as Walden Robert Cassotto, a frail Bronx boy plagued by multiple bouts of rheumatic fever, and become a singer more famous than Frank Sinatra. To achieve that goal, he forms a band and struggles to find gigs at any nightclub that will hire him.
His agent gets Darin a recording contract with Atlantic Records, where the singer enjoys teen idol success with “Splish Splash”. Not wanting to limit his appeal to rock and roll audiences, he changes his niche to big band singing and records major hits, such as “Mack the Knife.” To capitalize on his popularity with teenage and young adult audiences, Darin is cast in Come September opposite Sandra Dee. He falls in love with the 18-year-old actress and, determined to marry her, he woos her with songs like “Beyond the Sea” and “Dream Lover.” The two finally elope, angering her mother. Darin finally realizes his own mother’s dream when he is signed to appear at the famed Copacabana nightclub in Manhattan.
As his success takes him on the road and away from home more frequently, Dee begins to drink heavily, and the couple fights frequently. Eventually they separate, then later reconcile. She gives birth to their son Dodd, and Darin is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a shell shocked soldier in Captain Newman, M.D. When Darin becomes involved in the campaign to elect Robert F. Kennedy for President and contemplates a political career of his own, his sister Nina, knowing his past will be investigated closely if he opts to enter the political arena, shocks him with the news his beloved mother actually was his grandmother and he is Nina’s illegitimate child, the son of a father she can’t identify.
Devastated, Darin becomes a recluse living in a trailer on the Big Sur coast in California. He finds himself out-of-step with changing music trends, and when he tries to adapt by incorporating folk music and protest songs into his repertoire, he finds himself rejected by the audience that once embraced him. Undaunted, he stages a show, complete with a gospel choir, at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, and against all odds it is a huge success. But his triumph is short-lived – suffering with blood poisoning following surgery to repair his mechanical heart valve, he’s rushed to the hospital, where he dies at the age of 37. Following his death, he meets the younger counterpart of himself once again, and the two duet with “As Long as I’m Singing.” Read more
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