Synopsis
Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned.
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Cast
- Sandra BullockRoz
- Denis LearyFrancis 'Frank' O'Brien
- Yaphet KottoFBI Agent O'Malley
- Stephen DillaneEvan Marsh
- Tracey Cherelle JonesCop
- Julia Montgomery BrownBeautiful Woman
- Jane MoffatMarcy Kellerher
- Mike StarrFitzie
- Jonathan TuckerTodd
- Wayne RobsonBeano Callahan
Recommendations
- 60
Empire
Enjoyable, if slight. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Two If by Sea should have been titled "Two at Sea." It's adrift. Stars Sandra Bullock and Denis Leary have no chemistry together, and a perfectly good story is wasted on a really bad script. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
Only the sheer force of Sandra Bullock's apparently ingenuous charm keeps this sodden romantic comedy afloat. - 30
Rolling Stone
The saddest element of Two if by Sea is watching Bullock get dragged down in the drivel. - 30
The New York Times
How bad could it be? Not exactly awful. But not funny, sexy or romantic either, which doesn't leave anything for this inert and oddly confused movie to do. - 25
San Francisco Examiner
DENIS LEARY may be a funny guy when he's standing on stage spraying invective at a live audience, but as a movie star he has a lot to learn. - 25
ReelViews
Two if by Sea has a drab, dreary tone that's due as much to the unenthusiastic performances as to the bland direction. If anyone was having fun making this film, it doesn't come across. Star Wars' gold droid C3P0 had more humanity than all of Two if by Sea's characters combined. Because I never cared about Frank or Roz, the "feel good" ending left me cold. And, to think, I wasted over an hour and a half in a theater with this movie when I could have been outside shoveling snow. - 20
Variety
The dialogue has the crispness of aging lettuce, and the situations rely on coincidence, disbelief and a singular disregard for character.
