Fresh
Swinton ... is for once deglamorized into an ordinary woman enlarged by extraordinary circumstances, and the role animates her wonderfully.
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly
The Deep End
How far would you go to protect your family?
2001 · 1h 41m · R
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Scott McGehee
,
David Siegel
Overview
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?
Director and cast
- Scott McGehee Director
- David Siegel Director
- Tilda Swinton as Margaret Hall
- Goran Višnjić as Alek Spera
- Jonathan Tucker as Beau Hall
- Josh Lucas as Darby Reese
- Peter Donat as Jack Hall
- Raymond J. Barry as Carlie Nagel
- Tamara Hope as Paige Hall
- Jordon Dorrance as Dylan Hall
- Heather Mathieson as Sue Lloyd
- Holmes Osborne as Loan Officer
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
82%
Tomatometer
Fresh
For the most part ... the filmmakers and performers invest a high level of intelligence and sympathy into The Deep End.
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
For all its genre trappings, this is an intelligent, probing study of an ordinary woman under extraordinary duress.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh
The Deep End is the year's best movie since Memento.
Steven Rosen, Denver Post
Fresh
The Deep End does what too few films even attempt -- it takes an ordinary life and places it in an extraordinary situation just believable enough to be terrifying.
Tom Long, Detroit News
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