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Release Date: December 29th, 2004

Running Time: 118 minutes

U.S. Box Office: $6,144,806

Rating: PG-13 for strong language and a scene of sensuality.

Directed By: Kevin Spacey

Starring: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins, Peter Cincotti

Critics Reviews: 6 out of 10

Chicago Sun Times Kevin Spacey believes he was born to play Bobby Darin. I believe he was born to play more interesting characters, and has, and will, but I can see his point. He looks a little like Darin and sounds a lot like him, and apparently when he was growing up he formed one of those emotional connections with a performer where admiration is mixed with pity. Roger Ebert

Boston Globe I knew almost nothing about the singer and actor Bobby Darin before sitting through Kevin Spacey's new film about him. And having seen ''Beyond the Sea," all I can really tell you is that he sure did act a lot like Spacey. Wesley Morris

Film Critic I can indulge in a biography of Ray Charles; I can stomach an exploration of Cole Porter; but after Beyond the Sea’s portrayal of yet another famous musician, I need some Tums. That’s not to say the film lacks artistic merit, it’s just the victim of bad timing. Blake French

New York Times The matching of two slithery chameleons, the singer Bobby Darin and his latter-day doppelgänger, Kevin Spacey, in ''Beyond the Sea'' sparks a weird bluish flame that suggests a wax Yule log posing as wood in the season's teeming fireplace of movie biographies. Stephen Holden

USA Today Spacey looks enough like Darin to be credible — and sings not only well, but enough like his subject to fool a listener's ears. But beyond this, Sea marks the first time since American Beauty that the actor, who also directs here, really seems to be enjoying himself on screen. Mike Clark

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Beyond the Sea Official site for the biopic film about '50s singer Bobby Darin.