Beyond the Sea (film) Golden Globe nomination. 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 Bronx boy plagued by multiple bouts of rheumatic fever, and become 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. His agent gets Darin a recording contract with Atlantic
Kevin Phillips (actor) a supporting role in Queen Latifah’s "The Cookout" (2004) opposite Tim Meadows. He has also had roles in 2005's "American Gun" with Forest Whitaker and Donald Sutherland as well as "Rock The Paint" which premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2009's "Notorious", the biopic of the Notorious B.I.G., Kevin played Mark Pitts, the co-manager of the late rapper. In 2008, Kevin finished the street-fighting film, "Blood and Bone", as well as the musical, "Mama, I Want to Sing!" starring R&B singer Ciara. Kevin is currently filming his starring role in the indie action film "Sinners & Saints". In