SummaryIn 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... Read More
Directed By:Ulu Grosbard
Written By:Jacquelyn Mitchard, Stephen Schiff
The Deep End of the Ocean
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Mixed or Average
45
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Generally Favorable
6.4
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
25% Positive
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Michelle Pfeiffer and Treat Williams give such magnetic performances that they elevate the film way above its middlebrow sensibility and proclivity for neat resolutions.
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About two faces of healing.
User score
Generally Favorable
57% Positive
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12 Ratings
29% Mixed
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Dec 29, 2016
7
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.
Jun 17, 2013
2
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
60
Ends up insisting on pat and overly tidy resolutions that are at variance with the emotional chaos it's nominally attempting to convey. [12 March 1999, Calendar, p.F-1]
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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]
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Heavy-handed melodrama that rises above its manipulative trappings on the solid performances of the cast.
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A painfully stolid movie that lumbers past emotional issues like a wrestler in a cafeteria line, putting a little of everything on his plate.
10
It has the overwhelming stench of a film afflicted by star ego -- Michelle Pfeiffer is never wrong, which is exactly what is wrong with The Deep End of the Ocean.
Apr 15, 2017
1
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 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.
Production Company:
- Columbia Pictures
- Mandalay Entertainment
- Via Rosa Productions
Release Date:Mar 12, 1999
Duration:1 h 46 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:The search for her son was over. The search for her family was just beginning.
Awards
YoungStar Awards
• 2 Nominations
Young Hollywood Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
