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The Deep End
Upon finding out her gay son Beau is having a sexual affair the disputable 30-year-old night club owner named Darby, Margaret demands Darby not to see her son again.She did not expect that Darby is found dead the next morning, leading to her struggle to protect the son from crime investigation..
14 March 1939, Hempstead, Long Island, New York, USA
20 January 1928, Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada
28 March 1952, San Jose, California, USA
23 December 1969, San Francisco, California, USA
February 13, 2003
Its overall attempts at re-igniting the unsettling ambience of old-fashioned film noir are let down by a potholed plot and poor characterisation.
August 27, 2001
The film ultimately fails, either because the premise is too absurd, or the execution isn't absurd enough.
August 29, 2001
The Deep End is the year's best movie since Memento.
June 18, 2006
As the protective mother, the brilliant Tilda Swinton elevates this well-directed neo-noir way above its status as a loose remake of the 1949 Max Ophuls's Reckless Moment.
September 25, 2010
Margaret doesn't throw punches, just rolls with them. Some of her actions can't be objectively condoned. But through a maternal prism, Tilda Swinton makes sure they're understood, with skill sly enough to register strongly in the most ordinary of roles.
January 13, 2011
Woman-in-jeopardy thriller with a double twist.
June 18, 2002
For the most part ... the filmmakers and performers invest a high level of intelligence and sympathy into The Deep End.
July 30, 2007
Finely crafted but more than a little overrated.
August 31, 2001
For all its genre trappings, this is an intelligent, probing study of an ordinary woman under extraordinary duress.
August 27, 2001
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.
November 18, 2002
Swinton ... is for once deglamorized into an ordinary woman enlarged by extraordinary circumstances, and the role animates her wonderfully.
May 20, 2014
The Deep End is an unconventional thriller with unconventional characters, unconventional actors and an unconventional pace. That serves the movie quite well.