The Deep End of the Ocean

Name: The Deep End of the Ocean
Genre: Drama
Released: March 12, 1999
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 45
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg

1999

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: March 12, 1999 | PG-13

Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg

Summary: In the middle of a crowded hotel lobby Beth Cappadora (Pfeiffer) looks away for a moment-and in that moment lives every parent's nightmare when her three-year-old son Ben disappears. This film portrays the joyful and wrenching experiences of Beth and her husband Pat (Williams) when Ben mysteriously and miraculously reappears nine yearsIn the middle of a crowded hotel lobby Beth Cappadora (Pfeiffer) looks away for a moment-and in that moment lives every parent's nightmare when her three-year-old son Ben disappears. This film portrays the joyful and wrenching experiences of Beth and her husband Pat (Williams) when Ben mysteriously and miraculously reappears nine years later, at the age of twelve, a happily adopted child with no memory of his real parents. (Sony)… Expand

Director: Ulu Grosbard

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 106 min

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Emanuel Levy

Michelle Pfeiffer and Treat Williams give such magnetic performances that they elevate the film way above its middlebrow sensibility and proclivity for neat resolutions. Read full review

Peter Rainer

The emotional resolutions aren't pat, exactly. But they're not messy either, and for material this inherently volatile, that seems like a cheat. Read full review

Jami Bernard

About two faces of healing.

Wesley Morris

This is the kind of movie that mistakes heartbreak for being housebroken. Read full review

Edward Guthmann

It's a classy but downbeat spin on the most familiar of TV-movie formulas. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Should have worked on our emotions like a scalpel, made us cry and bleed. But, though it's an affecting, polished film, it's not satisfying. [12 March 1999, Friday, p.A]

Desson Thomson

The movie's a floating longboat that ought to be ignited and pushed out to sea, Viking style. Read full review

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AgustinA.

Sep 20, 2007

Is a excellent movie with an excellent plot a history that catches to the spectator at any moment the truth is that I recommend it.

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Meth-dude

Dec 29, 2016

The acting was good, the story was interesting and the movie was entertaining. It may have been a little too overdramatic for it's own good and it may come off as a movie that tries too hard to be sad, but it was still not that bad.

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AliBenzekri

Jun 17, 2013

This should be made for television to watch after lunch if you have nothing to do instead .
The story is so emotional but they failed to transform it to an acceptable movie

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Broyax

Apr 15, 2017

J'espère que vous êtes prêts et bien préparés... ouvrez grand !... prêts à être gavés de guimauve jusqu'à s'en étouffer ? c'est parti pour presque deux plombes ! et on ne vomit pas parce qu'il faudra de toute façon tout finir !

J'avoue qu'on tient un beau record en la matière, en matière deJ'espère que vous êtes prêts et bien préparés... ouvrez grand !... prêts à être gavés de guimauve jusqu'à s'en étouffer ? c'est parti pour presque deux plombes ! et on ne vomit pas parce qu'il faudra de toute façon tout finir !

J'avoue qu'on tient un beau record en la matière, en matière de guimauve lourde et sirupeuse qui dégouline partout ; à ce niveau-là, ça devient vraiment dégueulasse. Et à la guimauve vient s'ajouter toute la niaiserie et les violons qui vont avec. Un supplice.

Alors, heureusement qu'on peut accélérer mais même en accélérant, on regarde quand même jusqu'au bout, car cette chose est lancinante, hypnotique presque. A moins que ce ne soit de la curiosité expérimentale, pour voir juste jusqu'où ils vont nous gaver ces crevards !

Michelle n'y est pas pour rien certes : elle est très convaincante et toujours aussi belle. Mais putain, j'en peux plus, j'ai cru que ça se terminerait jamais.… Expand

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