Beyond the Sea Page #4

Synopsis: Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. He's volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that he's living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly, then "Splish Splash" puts him at the top of the charts and on "Bandstand." He wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then it's on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After, it's balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesn't always keep. Throughout, conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.
Director(s): Kevin Spacey
Production: Lions Gate Films
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
46
Rotten Tomatoes:
42%
PG-13
Year:
2004
118 min
$6,144,806
Website
249 Views


Hey, tell me something.

Who's this guy, Yom Kippur,

they got booked on Friday?

What are they screaming?

I finally topped the charts with a

song I wrote in 20 minutes.

Now, listen carefully to the lyrics.

They're very profound.

He said he'd do it, and he did it.

Charlie, I'm trying to hear him sing!

He's going to be the biggest

star in show business.

Ma, get away, I can't see.

What's that on his head?

- What is it?

- It's a toupee. One of those.

I was a teen idol for about a minute

and a half,

but Mama's plan was to be bigger than

Sinatra.

I wanted to do the great standards,

but my producer thought

I was nuts to turn my back on rock'n'roll.

Teenagers aren't going to buy an album

of you doing standards.

Ahmet, how do you know

what teenagers will buy?

What, you got a crystal ball back

there?

I know you don't change your image

when you're hot like this.

You know what? I don't want teenagers

to be my only audience, so that's perfect.

Why can't you be satisfied?

You just did Bandstand!

Bandstand's mostly for kids.

Ahmet, I want the Copa.

Wth rock'n'roll,

I'm like a thousand other guys out there.

I gotta prove I can sing. I want it

all.

I want the major leagues.

I want nightclubs, Vegas, movies, TV.

This album will make it happen all

fast.

You don't have to prove anything.

You're a star already.

- Is that what you think, Ahmet?

- Of course!

Hang on a second. Hey, kid! Hang on a

second.

- Kid! Kid!

- I don't have time for this, Bobby.

- What's up?

- I've a question. Wll you do me a favour?

- Wll you look at me?

- What?

Just look at me.

Do you know me?

- What?

- Do you recognise me?

- What are you talking about?

- Do I look familiar to you?

No. You don't. I don't know you.

Leave me alone, crazy bastard.

I got things to do.

Thanks, pal.

Ahmet, when the delivery guy

knows me, then I'm a star.

- Give her the real thing.

- Yeah!

Cypress, 2-6-7-2.

Bobby, you're to remember this number.

Any time, if you need me,

no matter where you go, you call.

Cypress 2-6-7-2.

You have to answer it.

You have to tell what happens next.

- Hey, Nina. How's it going?

- Honey, I gotta tell you something.

What?

D Up A Lazy River

Go ahead.

You have to go.

Don't worry about me.

I can't.

You have to.

Mama, I think this is

what we've been looking for.

And here he is,

the greatest - Bobby Darin.

Best New Artist. Best Album. Bobby

Darin.

Bobby Darin, this is your life.

Let's go make movies!

So with success, Hollywood came

knocking.

I flew to Italy with Charlie and Nina

to make a movie with Rock Hudson

and Sandra Dee.

What is wrong with you, you stupid

wop?

There's things in there that break!

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Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, producer and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s that culminated in his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects (1995) and an Academy Award for Best Actor for the midlife crisis-themed drama American Beauty (1999). His other starring roles have included the comedy-drama film Swimming with Sharks (1994), the psychological thriller Seven (1995), the neo-noir crime film L.A. Confidential (1997), the drama Pay It Forward (2000), the science fiction-mystery film K-PAX (2001), the musical biopic Beyond the Sea (2004), the superhero film Superman Returns (2006) and the action film Baby Driver (2017). In Broadway theatre, Spacey won a Tony Award in 1991 for his role in Lost in Yonkers. In 2017, he hosted the 71st Tony Awards. He was the artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London from 2004 until stepping down in mid-2015. From 2013 to 2017, Spacey played Frank Underwood in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards. For his role as Underwood, he has won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and two consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series. In October 2017, Spacey was accused by actor Anthony Rapp of making a sexual advance toward him when Rapp was 14. Shortly after, numerous other men alleged that Spacey had sexually harassed or assaulted them. As a result, Netflix cut all ties with him, shelved his film Gore and removed him from the cast of the last season of House of Cards. He was to appear in Ridley Scott's film All the Money in the World; however, all his scenes were cut from the film, and Christopher Plummer replaced him in reshoots. more…

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