Beyond the Sea
Beyond the Sea is a 2004 American biographical musical drama film based on the life of singer-actor Bobby Darin. Starring in the lead role and using his own singing voice for the musical numbers, Kevin Spacey co-wrote, directed, and co-produced the film, which takes its title from Darin's song of the same title.
Plot
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 roots as Walden Robert Cassotto, a frail boy from The Bronx plagued by multiple bouts of rheumatic fever, who becomes 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.
Cast
- Andy Gätjen
- Bob Hoskins
- Brenda Blethyn
- Caroline Aaron
- Clayton Nemrow
- David Westhead
- Greta Scacchi
- Harvey Friedman
- Joel Kirby
- John Goodman
- John Keogh
- Joost Siedhoff
- Kate Bosworth
- Kevin Spacey
- Matthew Burton
- Natalie O'Hara
- Nina Franoszek
- Orhan Güner
- Peter Cincotti
- René Ifrah
- Tayfun Bademsoy
- Torben Liebrecht
- Vinzenz Kiefer