Most Rewatchable Scene
First sex scene (two choices); late-night convenience-store rendezvous
In the discussion (18)
- The fake Yankees event traps wanted fans.
- The cops devise the rhyming personal-ad and fingerprint scheme.
- The unsuccessful dates include a disappointed woman in a wig and another who identifies Frank’s cop eyes.
- Helen’s red-jacket introduction and blunt rejection unsettle Frank.
- Frank runs into Helen while awkwardly selecting fruit and arranges another date despite his partner’s warning.
- Frank and Helen’s late-night bar conversation establishes their attraction.
- The sex scene begins with suspicion over a starter pistol and Helen being shut in the closet.
- Helen’s physical dominance and Frank’s exhausted morning make the first sex scene especially funny; it receives two final choices.
- The shoe-store confrontation with two aggressive customers leads to Frank’s angry speech.
- Frank apologizes in the kitchen, then notices the personal ads on the refrigerator.
- Helen playing Sea of Love renews suspicion that she is the killer.
- The fight with Rooker culminates in the villain falling from the window.
- The final street reconciliation benefits from Pacino being bumped and recovering naturally.
- Drunk Frank calls his ex-wife from bed claiming appendicitis.
- Frank complains about his ex-wife within earshot of her new partner, culminating in a detectives’ party fight.
- The Long Island wedding is an additional candidate.
- The late-night convenience-store meeting after Frank’s request that Helen omit underwear is the other final favorite.
- Pacino and Goodman confronting the personal-ad writer in front of his family is an additional remembered scene.