Ocean Ave.

*Ocean Ave.*
Ocean Ave.
Genre	Drama
Created by	Joanna Coons
Written by	Joanna Coons
Directed by	Constance Hoy, Jason Sklaver, Jonathan Wyche, Adele Cecchi
Creative director	Bill O'Dowd
Starring	Steve DuMouchel; Marc Menard; Candace Kroslak; Sean Sullivan; Andrea Abenoza
Theme music composer	Andreas Helmle; Alex Menck; Amedeo Tortora
Composer	Andreas Helmle
Country of origin	Sweden; United States
Original languages	English; Swedish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	130
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Production companies	Dolphin Entertainment; Kajak
Original release
Network	TV4
Release	August 26, 2002 –; April 1, 2003

Ocean Ave. is a Swedish-American low budget daytime soap opera, produced by the Swedish production company, Kajak, and filmed by the Florida-based production company Dolphin Entertainment. It was set and filmed in Miami, Florida between 2002 and 2003. The series was made for TV4; it shifted from the early prime time slot to middays after experiencing low ratings, and idespite being an American co-production, never aired outside Sweden.

The main cast included only five Swedish actors, four other Swedish actors were seen in minor roles in hopes the series would be distributed beyond Sweden. 130 hour-long episodes were filmed, then ultimately split in half into 260 half-hours.

Plot

Soap opera actor Timothy Adams plays cop Thomas "Thom" O'Keefe, who is working on the case of a prostitute-murdering serial killer. Thom's father, the police commissioner, Jamie O'Keefe (Marc Macaulay), has been involved in other illegal activities for years. When Thom finds out about his father criminal life, he flips out and tries to kill Roberto Rendon, but everything goes wrong and Thom is shot by Manny Ortega. At the hospital, Thom forgives his mother who left him when he was a child, and he begs Sage to promise that she will leave Macy. Thom then dies. Sage follows through with her promise. She divorces Macy, but helps him to escape from the Russians, Vladimir (Angelo Fierro) and Vega, who are after him for not paying them the money he owes. In the last episode, Sage marries Thom, who mysteriously comes back to life.

It is found later that the psychopath, Manny Ortega, has killed countless people. One of them, Stefan Eriksson, was shot to death in front of his dear son Alex, who blacked out and can not remember the murderer because of amnesia. Alex finally regains his memory and recognizes Manny as his father's killer. Manny then confesses in front of Alex and Elena and tells them he is also behind the explosion at Dev Tech, in Sweden. It is there that Nora, the mother of Chrissy and Alex, died. Manny's plan was to kill Stefan, but he survived until he shot him. Manny also tells Alex and Elena that he was the man who raped Elena's mother, Alicia, and that he then strangled her and planted her car in the water so it looked like she drowned in a car accident. Manny probably strangled Hadley Marx as well, but he never confesses to it. Manny is finally shot to death by his own son, Jimmy Ray, who was sent by Roberto.

The journalist, Crystal Tate (Victoria Jackson), starts her own investigation and finds out many dark secrets about the Devon, O'Keefe, Hamilton, and Rendon families. The secrets date back to 1977 and have to do with the death of bordello girl Jazz De Guise (Heidi Mark). Everybody thinks that Jazz died of a drug overdose but Crystal convinces the police to reopen the Jazz case and the question "Who killed Jazz?" makes the Devons and O'Keefes very nervous.

Later in the series, the Swedish model and actress, Victoria Silvstedt, appears in a few episodes in hopes to boost the ratings. She played a sexy detective sent to Miami to help the police with the serial killer case, but she soon falls victim to the killer herself.

Cast

Timothy Adams as Thomas "Thom" O'Keefe
Kristy Eisenberg as Sage Devon
Victoria Jackson as Crystal Tate
Marc Macaulay as Jamie O'Keefe
Lyn Foley as Lorraine O'Keefe / Teri Martin
Tony Templeton as Macy Devon
Steve DuMouchel as Martin Devon
Leigh Lombardi as Anne Devon
Jean Carol as Catherine Devon
Marc Menard as Lucas Devon
Angelo Fierro as Vladimir
Megan Fox as Ione Starr
Jessica Sutta as Jody Starr
Rebecca Ferguson as Chrissy Eriksson
Candace Kroslak as Lindy
Gwendolyn Osborne as Jade
Justin Gorence as Dr. Will O'Keefe
Edward Finlay as Dylan O'Keefe
Francisco Paz as Manny Ortega
Carlos Iglesias as Jimmy Ray Ortega
Antoni Corone as Roberto Rendon
Denise DeQuevedo as Elena Rendon
Jan Waldekranz as Stefan Eriksson
Jacqueline Ramel as Nora Eriksson
Marcus Larsson as Alex Eriksson
Pa Neumüller as Charlotta Eriksson
Natalie Khoury as Gaby Hamilton
Matthew McKerrow as Ian Blake
Petrus Antonius as Tony
Nicole Rawlins as Kayla
Robert Fitzsimmons as Mike
Michael Sarysz as Raider
Michael Anderson as Marco
Ken Clement as Harry Sowalski
Brian Baer as Davey Lapin

Guest roles

Nick Ondarza as Ramon Vega
Kalex as Armand Vega
Bart Baldwin as Bobby Devon
Sean Sullivan as Josh Mandell
Sarah-Elizabeth Walk as Model Mandy
Martin Forsström as Nils Thurmond
Wayne Farnes as P.I. Paterson
Thatcher Stevens as Vincent
Miriam Salazar as Julianna Ortega
Peter Haig as Trebly
Andrea Abenoza as Hadley Marx
Susanne Krietman Taylor as Dr. Martha Kurtz
Eric Anderson as Torrance Jones
Angel Schmiedt as Arlette Kelly-Jones
Kimona Ryan as Jewel Starr
Arielle Quatro as Tasha James
Will McClain as Jordan Matthews
Sean Dennison as Mr. Steve Ryan
Linda L. Miller as Lisa Maddux
Billy Kelly as Matt Baxter
Francois Boulaire as Louis
Justine Eyre as Karen
Brooke Leslie Reid as Regina
Raul Roman as Coach Perez
Mario Ingoglia as Janitor
Michele Lepe as Denise
Todd Nasca as Jake
Irene B. Colletti as Joan
Lee Perkins as Detective Sanders
Linda Batista as Daniella
Chanin Owens as Ally/Misty
Roxie Stice as Louise
Dave Corey as Dr. Jaspers
Chris Charles Herbert as Michael Layton
Krizia Bajos as Noelle
Magda Hernandez as Alicia Rendon
Heidi Mark as Jazz De Guise
Marjorie Manushaw as Kayla's Grandmother
Tina Harbom as Eva Olin
Victoria Silvstedt as Detective Johanna Marsden
Erin Plewes as Jessica
Monika Kramlik as Nadine Royal
Sally Boni as Lauren Ramsey
Vivian Ruiz as Margaret

External links

Ocean Ave. at IMDb