Beyond the Sea
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Kevin Spacey
Turgay Manduz
Ian Waller
Scott Marshall
Gavin Lee
Curtis Victor
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
For Bobby Darin, performing was his life. It kept his heart beating. He came alive onstage, even when he was near collapse offstage. From the age of seven, Walden Robert Cassotto--Little Bobby knows the odds are stacked against him. Rheumatic fever has permanently damaged his heart, and he's not expected to make it to age fifteen. Bobby's family pour all their energies into caring for him. Bobby's frail heart may be one truth, but his mother Polly, a former singer, introduces her boy to another wonderful truth: music. Music becomes Bobby's bargaining chip against time; he's not only singing, but also playing piano, drums and guitar before he even hits his teens. Music takes him into a world beyond the Bronx, and beyond sickness. It's a world of effortlessly swinging songs, and couples dancing to the lilt of Bobby's voice. Bobby has a plan, and no heart ailment will stop him.
Director
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Kevin Spacey
Cast
Turgay Manduz
Ian Waller
Scott Marshall
Gavin Lee
Curtis Victor
Aaron Sillis
Paul Robinson
Matt Rippy
Kate Bosworth
Sam Douglas
Emma Tunmore
Maria Schuster
Suzanne Thomas
Chris Jarvis
Sean Martin Hingston
Sabine Winterfeldt
Simon Williams
Amadeus Martin-reid
Charlotte Gorton
Simon Coulthard
Barnaby Ingram
Cornell Adams
Paul Basleigh
Keith Murrell
Kathryn Dunn
Tessa Niles
Holly-jane Rahlens
Richie Gibson
Melanie Gage
Tom Sapsford
Lorenzo Fruzza
Vinzenz Kiefer
Gavin Eden
Kimmi Richards
Jacqui Jameson
Gillian Grueber
Carol Kenyan
Zoe Hardman
Denise Holland
Mathew Burton
Carol Lee Meadows
Scarlett Strallen
Lara Costa
Tayfun Bademsoy
Arthur Gurunlian
Vittorio Alfieri
Damien Jackson
Clayton Nemrow
Jeffrey Broadhurst
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Kevin Spacey
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Brenda Blethyn
Spencer Soloman
Alex Splendore
Megan Gay
Jason Gardiner
Shaun Lawton
Tom Mannion
Andy Gatjen
Wil Rottgen
Toni Nissl
Jake Samuels
Rene Ifrah
Adrian Edmeades
Gary Amers
Simon Karaiskos
Bob Hoskins
Simone De La Rue
Magdalena Maslik
William Ullrich
Peter Gilbert Cotton
Shannon Lewis
Helen Otway
Harvey Friedman
Fergus Logan
Orhan Guner
Tim Williams
Mae Mckenna
Jeffrey Mittleman
Natalie O'hara
John Keogh
Lorraine Stewart
Vikki Coote
Alec Mann
Anna Jane Casey
Marcus Brigstocke
Martin Arno
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John Goodman
Howard Cooper
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Greta Scacchi
Alberto Fortuzzi
Roberto Giuffrida
Laura Jayne
Ricky Watson
Leon Alderton
Matt Flint
Joel Kirby
Chris Bailey
Rebecca Giacopazzi
Melissa Hetherington
Andrew Weale
J J Straub
Mick Mullins
Margo Buchanan
Jake Broder
Georg Schramm
Andreas Renell
Mari Mackenzie
Nunzio Lombardo
Gary Whelan
Derek Green
Caroline Aaron
Tomas Spencer
Andrew James Laws
Natalie Somerville
Pip Jordan
Gabriel Walsh
Craig Scott
Phyllida Crowley Smith
Wolfgang Schwingler
Alastair Postlewaite
Summer Strallen
Michael Byrne
Joost Siedhoff
Joseph Sumner
Michael Traynor
Mehmet Yilmaz
Francesco D'astici
Joann M Hunter
Barnaby Thompson
Tristan Temple
Torben Liebrecht
Enrique Alberto Saunders
Johnny Challah
Lance Ellington
Peter Cincotti
Crew
Georgina Lockhart Adams
Georgina Lockhart Adams
Lee Adams
Joseph Alley
Andrea Allroggen
Christian Almesberger
Samir Alschausky
Jeanette Apel
Michael Apling
Sidney Arodin
Alan Ashby
Rob Ashford
Daniel Ashton
Michel Atanassian
Paul Attanasio
William Attaway
Will Ayers
Sergio Ayrosa
Pavlos Bacharis
Jorg Backer
Anka Baier
Alan Bailey
Jon Bailey
Mark Bailey
Thomas Bandke
Giacomo Bargellesi
Tom Barrow
Philip Barry Jr.
Lutz Bartschat
Robert Bartz
Linda Maria Barutzki
Richard Behrke
Richard Behrke
Kristian Behtke
Harry Belafonte
Sonja Bender
Holger Birkelbach
Heinz Bitte
Stephan Blankenburg
Steve Blauner
Marc Blitzstein
Peter Block
Peter Blor
Jerry Bock
Thomas Bogdahn
Chris Bolster
Sven Boneker
Yannick Yves Bonica
Michael Borchert
Frank Born
Monika Bosch
John Bowman
Mark Brady
Alan Brandt
Dietke Brandt
Mattias Braun
Rupert Bray
Bertolt Brecht
Natalie Brenner
Lutz Breuer
Leslie Bricusse
Oliver Brierley
Stuart Brisdon
Shelton Brooks
Chloe Claudia Brown
Chloe Claudia Brown
Roland Brumme
Dana Brunetti
Peter Burgis
Jason Burnett
Michael Burns
Andy Burrows
Ingo Buschlepp
Karsten Busse
Tilman Buttner
Anna Campeau
Lorenzo Carcaterra
Malcolm Carlo
Hoagy Carmichael
Darryl Carter
Mei-ming Casino
Nick Cervonaro
David Chase
David Chase
Simon Chase
David Churchyard
James Clarke
Nigel Clay
Kate Coggins
Joanna Colbert
Melvyn Coleman
Lewis Colick
Jason Constantine
Andrew Cottee
Andrew Cottee
Mike Cowler
Tom Croxon
Mike Cuddy
Paul Curren
Sam Curren
Kerri Daly
Mark Damon
Andreas Dangeleit
Lothar Dankert
Bobby Darin
Dodd Darin
Adrian De Wet
Tom Debenham
Julia Dehoff
Jean-pascal Delevoye
Patsy Delord
Robert Dibble
Matthias Dippe
Lonnie Donegan
Paul Doogan
Jonathan Dredge
Michael Duwel
Marcel Dykiert
Marco Eckert
Christian Ehlert
Axel Eichhorst
Axel Eichhorst
Georg Eisenblatter
Ralf Eisenmann
Louis Elman
Paul Elman
Nicholas Embery
Jens Enderling
Sabine Engelberg
Andreas Enkelmann
Enzo Enzel
Lucy Evans
Kaspar Falkenroth
Jan Fantl
Michael Fechner
Chris Felstead
James Feltham
James Feltham
James Feltham
Jens Ficht
Kate Filby
David Fisher
Dean Fisher
Liam Flavell
Liam Flavell
Nick Foley
Geoff Foster
Phillippe Fraimbaud
Eric Francks
Martin Frank
Niels Frank
Yvonne Franz
Colin H Fraser
Derek Fraser
Tim Fraser
Arthur E Friedman
Ines Fritscher
Sandra Fritzsch
Bert Fritzsche
Christian Frohn
Rene Frommholz
Rene Frotscher
Charmaine Fuller
Charmaine Fuller
Rolf Fusslein
Melanie Gage
Felix Gallo
Claudia Garbriel
Jens Gaube
Wieland Gaul
Bianca Gavin
Robert Gee
Muriel Gerard
Bernd Gesche
Stephan O Gessler
John Gibbs
Mark Gill
Darius Gircys
Adam Glasman
Andy Glen
Joe Godfrey
Janine Gold
Diana Gollmer
Dianne Gordon
Susanne Goretzki
Thorsten Graeser
Dierk Grahlow
Arthur Holland Graley
Alan Grayley
Jill Green
Rebecca Green
Marcel Griese
Ilias Grigoriou
Sammy Gruhn
Peter Gruneberg
Birgit Gudjonsdottir
Sean Cameron Guest
Severino Gurtler
Oliver Gutsche
Karen Habens
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States February 2005
Released in United States November 2004
Released in United States on Video June 7, 2005
Released in United States Winter December 17, 2004
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama Special) February 10-20, 2005.
Previously in development with MDP Worldwide, which withdrew from the project in August 2003
Previously in development with MGM.
Project previously in development at Baltimore/Spring Creek with Barry Levinson attached to direct.
Feature directorial debut for Kevin Spacey.
Biographer Dodd Darin is Bobby Darin's son.
Released in United States February 2005 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama Special) February 10-20, 2005.)
Released in United States on Video June 7, 2005
Released in United States November 2004 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (Gala) November 4-14, 2004.)
Released in United States Winter December 17, 2004 (NY, LA)
Producer Steve Blauner was Bobby Darin's manager.