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BEYOND THE SEA

By | December 2004

IN LIMITED RELEASE! Spacey has guts as a director, that’s for sure, and he definitely displays more talent here than he did in his directorial debut: the lamentable 1996 wannabe noir “Albino Alligator”. But directorial chutzpah is not nearly enough to save this dull and distant vanity project…

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