Synopsis
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?
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Cast
- Tilda SwintonMargaret Hall
- Goran VisnjicAlek Spera
- Jonathan TuckerBeau Hall
- Josh LucasDarby Reese
- Peter DonatJack Hall
- Raymond J. BarryCarlie Nagel
- Tamara HopePaige Hall
- Jordon DorranceDylan Hall
- Heather MathiesonSue Lloyd
- Holmes OsborneLoan Officer
Recommendations
- 100
Washington Post
An extraordinarily riveting drama. - 100
Los Angeles Times
Exquisitely made with a mesmerizing sense of style, it shows the wonderful things that can happen when traditional material is both handled with care and adroitly updated. - 90
Time
Elegantly made, romantically doomy, curiously affecting movie. - 88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Remains rooted in the real world, which makes its story all the more satisfying -- and chilling. - 80
Salon
The Deep End doesn't have a knotty message, but it's a much more meaningful picture than "Suture." - 80
Variety
Taking film noir material and turning it inside out visually and morally, The Deep End is an absorbing, beautifully made melodrama that succeeds on formal levels more than it does with suspense or emotion. - 75
New York Daily News
Delicious, intelligent thriller. - 75
Miami Herald
Swinton single-handedly carries The Deep End past its nagging ambiguities.
