Beyond The Sea (song) - in Popular Culture

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  • In the movie A Life Less Ordinary, it was sung by Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz.
  • On the television series American Dreams, Duncan Sheik performed the song while playing the role of Bobby Darin.
  • Bobby Darin's recording has been used in many films, TV shows and video games, including Apollo 13, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Diner, Goodfellas, Lost, Black Rain, The X-Files, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Finding Nemo and BioShock.
  • Kevin Spacey sang the song in the movie Beyond the Sea, a biopic about Bobby Darin, in a "fantasy" sequence leading up to his marriage to Sandra Dee.
  • The song was remixed by Moby and Oscar The Punk on the BioShock EP Game soundtrack.
  • A version of this song was sung by Kathryn Williams for the title track of The Cafe, a Sky TV series initially screened in the last quarter of 2011 (in the UK).
  • The song was also played in a 2005 commercial for Carnival Cruise Lines.
  • An instrumental version of the song is heard at the end of the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage at Disneyland.
  • A portion of Bobby Darin's recording was played during the splashdown and post-recovery of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 in the first episode of the 1998 HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon.
  • Cary Grant hums the tune in the 1952 movie Room for One More.
  • An instrumental version is played right after the opening credits of the 1948 movie Every Girl Should Be Married also starring Cary Grant
  • in 2011 the singer Damian McGinty sings this song for the end of the program The Glee Project

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